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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 5. P. 12-24

RADIATION SAFETY

A.V. Akleyev1,2, V.K. Ivanov3, T.G. Sazykina4, S.M. Shinkarev5

Consequences of the Nuclear Accident at the “Fukushima-1” NPP (Overview Issued by the UNSCEAR in 2013)

1. Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine FMBA, Chelyabinsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia; 3. A.F. Tsyb Medical Radiological Research Centre, Obninsk, Russia; 4. Research and Production Association “Typhoon”, Obninsk, Russia; 5. A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia

ABSTRACT

The UNSCEAR has recently summarized the overview data on the levels of radiation impacts resulting from the accident at the “Fukushima-1” NPP in 2011 and 2012, as well as on the risk of the development of radiation effects on human health and the impacts on the biota. In the annex to the overview, the dose estimates and the health effects for different population groups in Japan and, to a lesser degree, in the neighboring countries are presented. The Committee has analyzed a multitude of data sets provided by the official state organizations of Japan and other countries, and also the international organizations (IAEA, WHO, and other), on the levels of radiation exposure and deposition of the radioactive matter in each of the Japanese prefectures, concentrations of radionuclides in food products, exposures of the population and workers. In the process of the preparation of the overview, the Committee used the data and the literature published before October 2012. The overview also contains a chronological description of events at the Fukushima-1 NPP, including the events unfolding at the power plant; classification of the releases of radioactive materials into the atmosphere and the ocean; the measures taken for protection of the workers and the population from radiation exposures; estimation of exposure doses received by the population over the first year after the accident, prognosis for dose formation during the next ten years and throughout life; estimation of doses for workers engaged in the elimination of the consequences of the accident and in the clean-up operations during the period from March 11, 2011, and from October 31, 2012; a description of the health outcomes; assessment of exposure doses and effects on the biota inhabiting the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (fresh water and sea water).

Key words: nuclear power plant, Fukushima-1, releases, doses, biological effects, biota

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For citation: Akleyev AV, Ivanov VK, Sazykina TG, Shinkarev S.M. Consequences of the Nuclear Accident at the “Fukushima-1” NPP (Overview Issued by the UNSCEAR in 2013). Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015;60(5):12-24. Russian.

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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 5. P. 5-11

RADIATION BIOLOGY

A.A. Ivanov1,2, I.E. Andrianova1, T.M. Bulynina1,2, O.V. Dorozhkina1,2, V.N. Mal’tsev1, N.M. Stavrakova1, G.A. Shal’nova1, A.Yu. Bushmanov1

The Pharmacological Effects of Melanin in the Irradiated Mice

1. A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

ABSTRACT

Purpose: Investigation of the melanin efficiency administered to mice after irradiation at different doses.

Material and methods: The bone marrow form of the acute radiation syndrome in mice CD-1 was reconstructed by single or fractionated whole body irradiation with gamma- or X-rays. Phytomelanin water-soluble was given with water ad libitum from the first to the 30-th day after irradiation.

Results: It was shown that melanin was given after the acute exposure to ionizing radiation in doses 6.0-7.5 Gy decreased the lethal outcomes in all groups of mice. The survival melanin treated mice increased by 13-18 % as compared with control. After fractionated exposure (1 Gy daily, total dose 10 Gy) melanin produced 100 % therapeutic effect when the survival of control mice was 43.7 %. Melanin treated mice has demonstrated that body weight loss and the frequency test for bacteriuria were lower than in control. Moreover in mice which received melanin a more pronounced restoration motoric and searching activity had been observed.

Conclusion: According our experimental data melanin given “per os” after irradiation produced a marked therapeutic effect.

Key words: phytomelanin, X-rays and gamma-irradiation, single and fractionated, survival, bacteriuria, behavioral reactions, experimental therapy

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For citation: Ivanov AA, Andrianova IE, Bulynina TM, Dorozhkina OV, Mal’tsev VN, Stavrakova NM, Shal’nova GA, Bushmanov AYu. The Pharmacological Effects of Melanin in the Irradiated Mice. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015;60(5):5-11. Russian.

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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 6. P. 76-79

MEDICAL PRACTICE ISSUE

A.Y. Bushmanov, A.S. Kretov

Ionizing Radiation Related Disease: Occupational Disease or Accident at Work – How to Distinguish?

A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ABSTRACT

In accordance with the Labour Code of the Russian Federation and the Federal law dated 24.07.1998 No. 125-FZ, in the Russian Federation ionizing radiation that causes diseases associated with professional activities that give the an employee the right to receive compensation for injury of the caused harm to health, are divided into two groups: occupational diseases and industrial accidents. Unfortunately, a clear explanation to reasonably determine in what cases there is an occupational disease or an industrial accident is not given. This article offers an approach for clearly differentiating cases of occupational diseases due to exposure to ionizing radiation, and industrial accidents.

Key words: occupational disease, accident at work, ionizing radiation

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For citation: Bushmanov AY, Kretov AS. Ionizing Radiation Related Disease: Occupational Disease or Accident at Work - How to Distinguish?. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015;60(6):76-9. Russian.

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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 6. P. 27-33

A.R. Tukov, A.P. Birukov, I.L. Shafransky, A.A. Fomin

Comparative Risk Analysis of Radiation-Epidemiological Studies of Liquidators of the Chernobyl Disaster Exposed to Different Types of Radiation

A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ABSTRACT

Material and methods: The study carried out with the use of the information on NPP workers participated in recovery operations at the Chernobyl NPP. For risk calculation, the dose of professional exposure and the dose received during operations in 30 km zone were used.

Results: It is shown that the influence on humans of different types of radiation results in different risk levels malignancies.

Conclusion: For correct cancer risk estimation, the total radiation dose should be used.

Key words: cancer risk, doses of different types of radiation, the total dose

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For citation: Tukov AR, Birukov AP, Shafranskv IL, Fomin AA. Comparative Risk Analysis of Radiation-Epidemiological Studies of Liquidators of the Chernobyl Disaster Exposed to Different Types of Radiation. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015;60(6):27-33. Russian.

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Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 6. P. 60-66

DISCUSSION

M.V. Osipov, M.E. Sokolnikov

Challenges in Carcinogenic Risk Assessment of Medical Radiation Exposure among Workers at a Nuclear Power Plant

Southern Urals Biophysics Institute of FMBA RF, Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ABSTRACT

Purpose: Explore an approach to the estimation of relative risk from medical radiation exposure and show a complex mechanism of causal relationship between exposure to medical radiation and the risk of cancer among Workers at a nuclear power plant.

Material and methods: The study has been carried out among Workers at the «Mayak» nuclear nuclear power plant. Nuclear workers underwent the combined exposure of chronic gamma and alpha ionizing radiation in a wide range of doses, and regular medical examination at the Central medical-sanitary unit of Ozersk. Information on vital status and cause of death was obtained from the Nuclear Personnel Register and the Oncological Register. The risk assessment was carried out on the basis of the excess relative risk model.

Results: The comparison of the coefficient of excess relative risk per unit dose obtained in the model for external professional and medical exposure showed that ERR per unit dose of medical radiation exposure (5.5 (95 % CI 0.3; 12.2) for solid cancers other than lung, liver and bone, is several times higher than one for occupational external gamma radiation exposure (0.13 (95 % CI 0.05; 0.2)). To a large extent, this is not due to a direct carcinogenic effect of medical radiation, but as a consequence of the effective detection of cancer by the X-ray.

Conclusion: The reason for bias in the estimation of excess relative risk of medical exposure is a reversed causal interaction between the analyzed factor and the effect. One of the possible solutions of to this problem is the risk of medical X-ray screening exposure (i.e. fluorography) analyses. Simple summation of doses of medical and occupational exposure to for calculating the risk is unacceptable due to the different mechanisms of accumulation of radiation dose.

Key words: medical exposure, absorbed dose, excess relative risk, medical radiation dose

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For citation: Osipov MV, Sokolnikov ME. Challenges in Carcinogenic Risk Assessment of Medical Radiation Exposure among Workers at a Nuclear Power Plant. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2015;60(6):60-6. Russian.

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