The major accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has resulted in an increased risk of thyroid cancer in exposed individuals. A new report attempts to quantify the risk of thyroid cancer associated with living near nuclear facilities; however, the findings are inconclusive due to flaws in ...
{mosads}“We’re balancing the desire to provide updated answers on cancer risk with our responsibility to use congressionally-provided funds as wisely as possible,” Brian Sheron, director of the NRC’s research office, said in a statement. “The NAS estimates it would be at least the end...
(1998)in a study of residents living near 16 major nuclear power plants in Germany. However, both of these studies have been criticized on several methodological grounds and the results are not consistent with many other studies that have tended not to show increased cancer rates. Most recently...
Historically, mining and purifying uranium hasn't been a very clean process. Even transporting nuclear fuel to and from plants poses a contamination risk. And once the fuel is spent, you can't just throw it in the city dump. It's still radioactive and exposure to this waste can cause ...
2. Chernobyl accident and thyroid cancer risk On the early morning of April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Unit No. 4 High Power Channel-type Reactor, a water-cooled, graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor designed in the former Soviet Union (existing Ukraine)...
cancer risk assessment32,33. The organ doses estimation has been conducted for populations near nuclear facilities34. In the current study, we first summarized, compared and explained the literature values of the137Cs activity concentrations in soil measured in various areas influenced by the NPP ...
Cancer risk Studies show anincreased risk ofcancerfor those who reside near a nuclear power plant, especially for childhood cancers such as leukaemia. Workers in the nuclear industry are also exposed tohigher-than-normal levels of radiationand, as a result, are at ahigher risk of deathfrom can...
Increased risk of localized cancer in the body 放射性物质进入人体内后有各种破坏路径,比如锶会侵入骨骼,即使微量也会对局部器官产生很大破坏,发生局部癌变的风险增大。 今天的学习就到这里啦~内容较少,很快就能记住啦~ 今天的小知识学会了吗? 记得给...
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As this approach is intended to produce more realistic risk information, severe accident risk was defined using the exhaustive simulation results. As described in Section 2, Cs-137 is the key contributor to NPP risk including latent cancer risk and economical risk such as loss of habitability and...