...Mikhail V. Malko The paper presents results of a qualitative assessment of the morbidity and mortality in thyroid cancers by the Belarusian population caused by the Chernobyl accident. In the period of 1986‐1998 about 3,851 radiation‐induced thyroid cancers appeared in Belarus: about 615 cancers...

... be higher in the absence of radioadaptation process. A relationship between the frequencies of cytogenetic injuries and low doses of radiation was revealed in animal generations studied. The non‐linear dose‐effect curves are most likely to be defined by the complicated microevolutionary processes...

... by the public. Therefore, an improved risk communication as well as further studies of the risks are required. Modern digital cell phone systems (CPS) use 800‐950MHz and 1,800‐1,900MHz MWs with unique repetition rate of the carrier wave (217Hz), which resembles a pulse‐modulated MW radiation from certain...

... of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but the content of radionuclides in the foods were below the permissible levels. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Croatia Food Health Pollution Radiation For the last 50 years the human environment has been exposed to radioactive contamination from worldwide fallout...

..., and Barnaul, Russia, and of the 1995 meeting in Brussels/Liège, Belgium. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Ecology Environment Nuclear industry Radiation Tests A previous study conducted under the auspices of SCOPE‐ICSU ‐ Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (International Council...

... (IAEA) in Vienna in August 1986[ 1 ]. Part of the Agency’s work has been concerned also with the health effects in populations exposed to releases of radioactivity. This has been paralleled by UNSCEAR, (the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation). Annexe D (“Exposures...

... these conditions about 5‐15 per cent of the observed lung cancer frequency or of the lifetime risk may be attributable to indoor radon. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Communications Environment Hazardous materials Health Pollution Radiation Radon Risk For special target audiences, appropriate...

... − 10mSv. Accordingly, it seemed that the consequences of the accident on the population living around Tuwaitha site could only take the form of stochastic radiation, such as the induction of cancers, and heredity. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Atmospheric transfer coefficients at the downwind locations...

... direction. The heavy rainfall which occurred in Northern Europe following the explosion led to the removal, from the atmosphere, of radioactive materials; thus these reached terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Workers, including the National Institute for Radiation Hygiene, Norway[1] and Fry et al.[2] found...

... that radionuclides expected to be released from the site are not concentrated in the environment. The results of the monitoring programme indicated that the average exposure rate was similar to that of the background radiation in Iraq. Furthermore, some environmental samples contained very low‐activity...

...N.M.S. Barnaby; S. Frost The quantification of the effects of low‐level radiation is based mainly upon epidemiological studies. Recent reassessment of the data from Japanese survivors of the effects of radiation from Second World War bombing and from ankylosing spondylitis patients reveals...

... the same range. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Food Japan Pollution Radiation United Kingdom Waste A RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF SCOTTISH EDIBLE SEAWEED CONSUMPTION 17 S eaweeds accumulate trace elements and are therefore good indicator species of possibly hazardous radionuclide levels in seawater...

...J.G. Llaurado After analysing the differences between ionising and non‐ionising radiations, the author considers the interaction between radiations and the environment, in particular that affecting human tissues. The mechanism of the interaction is described in detail. It is shown that no consensus...