Assessment of Radiological Hazard of Radioactive Waste Using Effective or Organ Doses: How This May Affect Final Waste Disposal.

The radiological hazard of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste slows down further development of nuclear energy systems. The authors evaluate timescales required to reduce the radiological hazard of accumulated waste to the reference level of natural uranium that had been consumed by the nuclear energy system. The estimate of this time scale depends on the radiological hazard metric used in the calculations.

Relationship between follow-up periods and the low-dose ranges with statistically significant radiation-induced risk of all solid cancers in the Russian cohort of Chernobyl emergency workers.

Radiation-induced risks for all solid cancer incidence and mortality were studied in the cohort of Russian Chernobyl emergency workers. The cohort included 69,440 persons with documented individual radiation dose accrued over the time of working in the Chernobyl zone. The mean age at entry into the zone of recovery operations was 33.

CLINICAL AND DOSIMETRIC INFORMATION TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM COHORT STUDY OF CHERNOBYL CLEAN-UP WORKERS IN RUSSIA.

The article describes the activities of the Russian National Radiation-Epidemiological Registry (NRER) as the unified federal information system for research and management of individual medical and dosimetry data of people exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl accident and other radiological events. The NRER was created for long-term registration of lifetime changes in the health status of the registered people. We present medical and dosimetry data management process, which is carried out in compliance with approved protocols.

Radiation Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Cohort of Russian Emergency Workers of the Chernobyl Accident.

This paper continues a series of publications that analyze the impact of radiation on incidence of circulatory system diseases in the cohort of Russian recovery operation workers (liquidators) and presents the results of the analysis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence. The studied cohort consists of 53,772 liquidators who arrived in the Chernobyl accident zone within the first year after the accident (26 April 1986 to 26 April 1987). The individual doses varied from 0.

[Non-Parametric Analysis of Radiation Risks of Mortality among Chernobyl Clean-Up Workers].

Analysis of the relationship between dose and mortality from cancer and circulation diseases in the cohort of Chernobyl clean-up workers based on the data from the National Radiation and Epidemiological Registry was performed. Medical and dosimetry information on the clean-up workers, males, who got radiation doses from April 26, 1986 to April 26, 1987, which was accumulated from 1992 to 2012, was used for the analysis. The total size of the cohort was 42929 people, 12731 deaths were registered in the cohort, among them 1893 deaths from solid cancers and 5230 deaths were from circulation diseases.