Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2013. Vol. 58. No. 5. P. 62-72
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M.Ph. Kiselev1, T.V. Azizova2, A.V. Akleyev3, R.M. Aleksakhin4, V.K. Ivanov5, A.N. Koterov6, I.I. Kryshev7, B.K. Lobach8, O.A. Pavlovsky9, S.A. Romanov2, A.V. Sazhin6, S.M. Shinkarev6
On the 60th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). Vienna, 27–31 May 2013
1. Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia (FMBA of Russia), Moscow, Russia; 2. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia; 3. Urals Research Center of Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia; 4. Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, Obninsk, Russia; 5. Medical Radiological Research Centre, Obninsk, Russia; 6. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA of Russia, Moscow, Russia; 7. Research & Production Association “Typhoon”, Obninsk, Russia; 8. Nuclear Energy State Corporation “Rosatom”, Moscow, Russia; 9. Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow, Russia
CONTENTS
Introduction
Discussion of scientific reports on seven projects:
Report R.695 “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami”
Report R.696 “Effects of radiation exposure on children”
Report R.697 “Methodology for estimating human exposures due to radioactive discharges”
Report R.698 “Radiation exposures from electricity generation”
Report R.699 “Biological effects of selected internal emitters”
Report R.700 “Epidemiology of low-dose-rate exposures of the public to natural and artificial environmental sources of radiation”
Report R.700 “Development of an evaluation of medical exposures”
Key words: 60th session of UNSCEAR, accident at the nuclear power plant “Fukushima-1”, doses to the public, doses to the workers, effects of radiation exposure on children, radiation exposures from electricity generation, radioactive releases and discharges, epidemiology of low doses and low dose rate of ionizing radiation