OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Brochure "ARMIR individual radiological risks of occupational exposure"
The State Corporation “Rosatom” strongly supported the initiative of the Russian Scientific Commission on Radiological Protection under the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences towards accelerated development and deployment of a new technological platform to ensure nuclear and radiological safety of nuclear workers monitored for radiation exposure through the use of personal dosimeters (ARMIR) based on the international standards on estimating individual radiation risk (“dose matrix”). By now a lot of the planned activities have been completed, enabling estimation of the current risks in 72% of the monitored personnel (52438 persons), of which only 1.4% (755 persons) were found to have an increased risk.
Brochure "Radiological health effects 20 year after the Chernobyl accident: data of the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry"
One of the key issues of modern radiation epidemiology is to estimate objectively possible risks of cancers and non-cancer diseases at low radiation doses (up to 0.2 Sv). The amount of medical and dosimetric information collected by NRER and an adequate statistical power of the undertaken epidemiological studies make it possible to draw up a realistic picture of health effects of the Chernobyl accident.
Brochure "National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry"
The National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry is the largest in Russia medical information-analytical system designed to store, process and annually update data for more than 500 thousand residents of the Russian Federation affected by radiation. The Registry has a multilevel hierarchic structure covering the entire territory of Russia via regional centers, oblast and rayon departments and agency registers, which makes possible gathering information by common technology from more than 4000 medical institutions in the country.
Brochure " Liquidators of the Chernobyl catastrophe: the health status based on the data of the National Registry"
The brochure " Liquidators of the Chernobyl catastrophe: the health status based on the data of the National Registry" has been prepared within the framework of the TACIS project "Addressing the Clean-up and Secondary Health Effects of the Chernobyl disaster"
TACIS is the program of the European Union for the New Independent States aimed at promotion of closer economic and political relations between the EU and the project member-states. The objective of the program is to support the efforts of the member-states towards a civil society of political freedom and economical prosperity. Nuclear safety and environmental protection is one of the key activities under the Program, and the effects of the Chernobyl disaster are given a high priority among them.
The information about Chernobyl reaches the public through radio, TV and press. Not infrequently the information is fragmentary and biased, or does not come from competent sources. Reports featuring the life of the liquidators and their problems are often loaded and leave a reader with losing hope, which is a particular concern in the case of the liquidators.
Is there any unambiguous evidence available that low radiation doses have impact on the health status of people exposed to radiation following the Chernobyl disaster, namely the liquidators? For answering this question long-term studies are being carried out by the specialists of the Russian National Chernobyl Registry.
The brochure contains materials that would be of interest and useful for the liquidators on the topics:
• Radioactivity, radiation and radiation background;
• The National Chernobyl registry;
• The liquidators and the Registry;
• The health status of the liquidators.
Factual information is provided on the health status of the liquidators, along with general ideas about radiation and radioactivity. The brochure is based on the medical and dosimetric data collected by the Registry. The relationship between changes in health and received radiation dose is also discussed.
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