Division of Radiation and Radiobiological Research

diation and radiobiological researches and radiation protection. The first two lines are included in the Topical Plan for Scientific Research of JINR and were concentrated on: • neutron spectrometry and radiometry, radiation monitoring; • investigation of radiation fields around thick targets; • physical support of radiobiological experiments; • shielding calculations and design; • investigations of peculiarities and mechanisms of point and structural mutation induction in proand eukaryotic cells by radiation with different linear energy transfer (LET);