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RADIATION CONDITIONS IN KALUGA REGION 30 YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL NPP ACCIDENT
The article describes radiation conditions in the Kaluga region 30 years after the Chernobyl NPP accident. The Chernobyl NPP accident caused radioactive contamination of nine Kaluga region territories: Duminichsky, Zhizdrinsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky ...
A. G. Ashitko +3 more
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Occupational exposure to metal welding and cataract: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
Abstract Background Metal welding generates ultraviolet radiation (UVR) of cataractogenic wavelengths, and UVR emitted during welding has been associated with cataract formation, but results from prior studies are conflicting. Methods We conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis of epidemiological studies addressing associations between ...
Jakob Bjerager +5 more
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What is the half-life of a secret? Arriving at midlife with a string of failed jobs behind him, Anthony Fahey knows he's lucky to be given a last chance as a radiation monitor at Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde, where Britain's Trident nuclear weapons are
Lockwood, Alex
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Scale‐aware impact modelling for atmospheric releases of radioactive material
Since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, the UK has developed the process of Joint Agency Modelling (JAM), which provides advice to government in case of atmospheric releases of radioactive material. The timely deployment of JAM requires a prior estimate of the extent to which impacts could reach. Thus, to develop a fast pre‐calculator
Isaac Jadav +2 more
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The Chernobyl accident of 1986 exposed most if not all of Europe to a blanket of radiation, creating a melting pot of human exposure sequelae that is still showing up in our medical clinics today.
Andrew L. Atkinson, Andrew Rosenthal
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One decade after Chernobyl : summing up the consequences of the accident
Summary of the results of the Joint EC/IAEA/WHO International Conference: One Decade after Chernobyl : Summing Up the Consequences of the Accident, Vienna, 8-12 April ...
International Conference on One Decade after Chernobyl : Summing Up the Consequences of the Accident (1996 : Vienna, Austria) +1 more
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Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report: Volume 1 [PDF]
First volume of the final report produced by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board including the details of the Board's seven month investigation into the February 1, 2003 loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It includes sections on the accident, why
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
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CHERNOBYL HEALTH RADIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ON THE POPULATION OF RUSSIA: DATA OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY
Summarized radiation-epidemiological data on health effects of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP registered in the follow-up period 1986-2006 on the Russian population are reported.
V. K. Ivanov, A. F. Tsyb
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On the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of thyroid carcinoma after the Chernobyl accident
On the basis of the linear no-threshold theory, the Chernobyl accident was predicted to result in an incidence increase of various malignancies. In fact, there has been no cancer increase proven to be a consequence of the radiation exposure after the ...
Sergei V. Jargin
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The 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident [PDF]
The nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in 1986 is described and a summary of its immediate effects on people and the environment outlined. Then there is a summary of the important parts of the literature on diseases and deaths resulting from ...
Simmons, Phil
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