In April, 1996, a joint international conference ("One Decade after Chernobyl") was held in Vienna, Austria in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission (EC). In this meeting, they came to the conclusion that the abnormality of health condition definitely related to the Chernobyl accident was only thyroid canc...

To determine the current risk of internal radiation exposure after the Chernobyl accident, the (137)Cs body burden of the inhabitants of Bryansk Oblast, Russian Federation was evaluated, from 1998 to 2008. The study population is composed of 84 666 people who visited Bryansk No. 2 Hospital. A whole-body counter was used for measurement of (137)Cs body burden. (137)Cs concentration was significa...

Este artículo propone una revisión crítica de las causas tecnológicas que provocaron el desastre Chernobyl, señalando algunas cuestiones todavía son debatibles y polémicas hasta para los propios expertos nucleares. ¿Cómo es posible un reactor electronuclear pudiera estallar como bomba debido a decisiones erradas sus operarios? ¿Y si hubiera sido sabotaje o —como se diría hoy día— acto terrorist...

This article traces disagreements about the genetic effects of low-dose radiation exposure as waged by James Neel (1915-2000), a central figure in radiation studies of Japanese populations after World War II, and Yuri Dubrova (1955-), who analyzed the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. In a 1996 article in Nature, Dubrova reported a statistically significant increase in the minisatell...

The radioactivity released as a result of the explosions of the No.4 Reactor at the Chernobyl NPP plant in 1986 caused a number of severe problems affecting many countries worldwide. One of the greatest concerns was the release, transport and subsequent deposition of caesium-137, a long-lived radionuclide (half life T1/2 = 30.1 y), which is able to pass through the food chain and accumulate in ...