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  • Title: Dosimetric support of the International Programme on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident (IPHECA) pilot project: main results and problems.
    Author: Likhtarev IA, Kovgan LN, Repin VS, Los' IP, Chumak VV, Novak DN, Sobolev BG, Kairo IA, Chepurnoy NI, Perevosnikov ON, Litvinets LA.
    Journal: World Health Stat Q; 1996; 49(1):40-51. PubMed ID: 8896257.
    Abstract:
    The problem of post-Chernobyl dosimetry is unique in its complexity in the history of radiation medicine and radiation protection. This is because the early experience of mass exposure of people (bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Windscale and South-Ural accidents, exposure of inhabitants of Nevada in the United States of America, the Semipalatinsk area in the former USSR, the Marshall Islands, and the Goiånia accident in Brazil, and others) differed both in the much simpler structure of the irradiation source and in the number and characteristics of exposed persons. It is obvious that post-Chernobyl dosimetry, both as an independent problem, and as a tool for epidemiological studies, requires significant expertise and economic and technical expenditures. Extensive and deep research has been carried out in Ukraine for the past 10 years. This article reviews the main results of these studies.
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