OCCUPATIONAL-DISEASES FROM RADIATION EXPOSURE AT THE 1ST NUCLEAR-PLANT IN THE USSR

Authors
OKLADNIKOVA ND PESTERNIKOVA VS SUMINA MV DOSHCHENKO VN
Citation
Nd. Okladnikova et al., OCCUPATIONAL-DISEASES FROM RADIATION EXPOSURE AT THE 1ST NUCLEAR-PLANT IN THE USSR, Science of the total environment, 142(1-2), 1994, pp. 9-17
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Science of the total environment → ACNP
ISSN journal
00489697
Volume
142
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
9 - 17
Database
ISI
SICI code
0048-9697(1994)142:1-2<9:OFREAT>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The characteristics of occupational diseases from radiation exposure a t the first nuclear plant (Prod. Assoc. 'Mayak') in the period of its formation is presented here in brief Chronic radiation disease (ChRD) made up the predominant part of the spectrum of radiation injuries cau sed by external whole body exposure to gamma-radiation (more than 80%) . Acute radiation disease, local radiation injuries (burns, dermatitis ), plutonium pneumosclerosis, and one case of a radiation cataract wer e diagnosed as well.