137CsGamma-ray spectrometryAnnual effective doseSoil pollutionThis study aims to assess the artificial and natural radiation dose levels in certain districts of Kocaeli province within the Marmara region, 37years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and evaluate the current status prior to potential ...
There are important differences in the energy sources underlying passive and active measurements from space. Passive optical observations include reflected shortwave solar radiation (i.e., radiance, and the more useful derived measure, reflectance), solar-induced emitted radiation (e.g., fluorescence),...
KOPERSKI, J.; NIEWADOMSKI, T.; RYBA, E.; OLKO, P.; WALIGORSKI, M. (Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Cracow (Poland)): Gamma radiation levels around the highest background area in Poland. p. 12. In: SCHRABI, M.; BORHAN Azad, S.; KATOUZI, M. (eds.). Atomic Energy Organization of...
RadiationHealth effectsChernobylSemipalatinskMedical aidsThe medical cooperative projects from Nagasaki University to the former USSR have been performed in mainly two regions: Chernobyl and Semipalatinsk since 1990 and 1995, respectively. What we should do here in Nagasaki and also from Nagasaki will...
ChernobylFukushimaThe issue of potential long-term or hereditary effects for both humans and wildlife exposed to low doses (or dose rates)of ionising radiation is a major concern. Chronic exposure to ionising radiation, defined as an exposure over a large fraction of the organism's lifespan or...
[77,78]. Studies conducted in people exposed to radiations from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [79] and the Chernobyl incident [80] have revealed poor motility in the spermatozoa of ejaculates from these men. Even though the mechanism behind the radiation-induced defective sperm ...
Thyroid Cancer Induction: Nitrates as Independent Risk Factors or Risk Modulators after Radiation Exposure, with a Focus on the Chernobyl Accident. Eur. Thyroid J. 2018, 7, 67–74. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Yao, L.; Fu, H.; Bai, L.; Deng, W.; Xie, F.; Li, Y.; Zhang, R.;...
Regarding radiological agents, there are four major types of radiation: alpha (a relatively large subatomic particle—a helium nucleus, within a short range in the air, but it is potentially hazardous in the case of organism contamination); beta (relatively small subatomic particles consisting of ...
Workers are exposed to average levels of radiation below 5 millisieverts per year but TEPCO admits that this average masks a wide difference in individual levels depending on what jobs the workers carry out. One former worker, Minoru Ikeda, said surveillance should be strengthened. ...
5.2. Global potential of resource Between 1970 and about 1985, nuclear electricity production has experienced a rapid increase, however expansion slowed after the Chernobyl accident (Figure 16). As long as there has been concern about climate change there has been a debate around the global ...