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Environmental radiation level, radiation anxiety, and psychological distress of non-evacuee residents in Fukushima five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Multilevel analyses

SSM: Population Health, 2017
The present study aimed to clarify the associations among radiation exposure or psychological exposure to the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident (i.e., fear/anxiety immediately after the accident), current radiation anxiety, and psychological ...
Maiko Fukasawa, Norito Kawakami, Maki Umeda, Karin Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Naoko Horikoshi, Seiji Yasumura, Hirooki Yabe, Evelyn J. Bromet   +8 more
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Protection of Workers Exposed to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields: A Perspective on Open Questions in the Context of the New ICNIRP 2020 Guidelines

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Workers in occupational settings are usually exposed to numerous sources of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and to different physical agents. Risk assessment for industrial workplaces concerning EMF is not only relevant to operators of devices or machinery ...
Peter Jeschke, Carsten Alteköster, Kjell Hansson Mild, Michel Israel, Mihaela Ivanova, Klaus Schiessl, Tsvetelina Shalamanova, Florian Soyka, Rianne Stam, Jonna Wilén   +9 more
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Ionizing radiation and melanism in Chornobyl tree frogs

Evolutionary Applications, 2022
Human actions are altering ecosystems worldwide. Among human‐released pollutants, ionizing radiation arises as a rare but potentially devastating threat to natural systems.
Pablo Burraco, Germán Orizaola
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Retrospective analysis of the radiation situation in the territory of the Oryol region

Радиационная гигиена, 2020
The article considers the radiation situation in the Oryol region 33 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since 1998, certification has made it possible to assess the main indicators of the radiation situation in the region and ...
V. G. Simonova, L. I. Bublikova
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Assessment of mRNA and microRNA Stabilization in Peripheral Human Blood for Multicenter Studies and Biobanks

Biomarker Insights, 2010
In this study we evaluate the suitability of two methods of RNA conservation in blood samples, PAXgene and RNAlater, in combination with variable shipping conditions for their application in multicenter studies and biobanking.
Daniel Gilbert Weber, Swaantje Casjens, Peter Rozynek, Martin Lehnert, Sandra Zilch-Schöneweis, Oleksandr Bryk, Dirk Taeger, Maria Gomolka, Michaela Kreuzer, Heinz Otten, Beate Pesch, Georg Johnen, Thomas Brüning   +12 more
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Evolution of maximum permissible doses of ionizing radiation and role of accident of 1993 at the Siberian Chemical Plant in irradiation of people

Бюллетень сибирской медицины, 2008
In April 2008, it was 15 years after the accident at the radiochemical line of the Siberian Chemical Plant (SCP). Changes in the ionizing radiation background due to the accident of 1993 and results of investigation of the radiation situation in the SCP ...
F. F. Tetenev, A. I. Ryzhov, Ya. V. Porovsky   +2 more
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The German Uranium Miners’ Biobank—A Biobank for OMICs Radiation Research

Radiation, 2022
Systematic bio- and databanks are key prerequisites for modern radiation research to investigate radiation response mechanisms in the context of genetic, environmental and lifestyle-associated factors.
Maria Gomolka, Martin Bucher, Lukas Duchrow, Beate Hochstrat, Dirk Taeger, Georg Johnen, Simone Moertl   +6 more
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Five-year post-disaster mental changes: Mothers and children living in low-dose contaminated Fukushima regions.

PLoS ONE, 2020
It has been almost 10 years since the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011. This study elucidates changes in the mental states of mothers and children residing in low-dose radiation contaminated
Yuji Tsutsui, Tatsuo Ujiie, Rieko Takaya, Misako Tominaga   +3 more
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Some aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident

Environmental Disease, 2020
Average whole-body doses after the Fukushima accident remained within the limits of natural radiation background. Thyroid doses were much lower than after the Chernobyl accident.
Sergei V. Jargin
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Factors associated with nurses' intention to leave their jobs after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant accident.

PLoS ONE, 2015
We conducted a survey among nurses who were working at the Fukushima Medical University Hospital at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident to clarify the factors associated with their intention to leave their jobs during the ...
Yoshinobu Sato, Naomi Hayashida, Makiko Orita, Hideko Urata, Tetsuko Shinkawa, Yoshiko Fukushima, Yumiko Nakashima, Takashi Kudo, Shunichi Yamashita, Noboru Takamura   +9 more
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