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Nuclear Tests

Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai Region

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Charles S. Shapiro

    1. Department of Physics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

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  2. Valerie I. Kiselev

    1. Institute of Regional Medical and Ecological Problems, Barnaul, Russia

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  3. Eugene V. Zaitsev

    1. Institute of Regional Medical and Ecological Problems, Barnaul, Russia

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  • Provides new and unique information on the effects of radiation on humans

Part of the book series: Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (ASEN, volume 36)

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Table of contents (8 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Report of the Scientific Secretary

    • Peter J. Coughtrey
    Pages 1-16

  3. Overview of the NATO/SCOPE-RADTEST Advanced Research Workshop in Barnaul, Siberia

    • Valery I. Kiselev, Evgeny V. Zaitsev
    Pages 17-88

  4. Chronological List of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site and Their Radiation Effects

    • A. M. Matuschenko, G. A. Tsyrkov, A. K. Chernyshov, Yu. V. Dubasov, G. A. Krasilov, V. A. Logachev et al.
    Pages 89-97

  5. On the Possibility of Identifying Nuclear-Explosion Radioactive Patterns and Reconstructing Population-Exposure Doses Using the Analysis of Long-Lived Radionuclides

    • Yury A. Izrael, Evgeny D. Stukin, Yury S. Tsaturov
    Pages 99-105

  6. Estimation of the Altai Region Population Exposure Resulting from the Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site

    • Vladimir I. Djachenko, Michail N. Gabbasov, Valery I. Kiselev, Anatoly A. Lagutin, Vladimir M. Loborev, Alexander S. Markovtsev et al.
    Pages 107-132

  7. Basis of the Retrospective Reconstruction Method for Parameters Determining Internal Irradiation Along the Trace Following a Nuclear Explosion

    • Konstantin I. Gordeev, Valery I. Kiselev, Alexander N. Lebedev, Michail N. Savkin, Jakov N. Shoikhet
    Pages 133-147

  8. Initial Approaches to the Establishment of a Russian Data Bank on Nuclear Explosions and Compatibility with Similar Foreign Data Banks

    • Yury A. Izrael, B. I. Ognev, Alexey G. Ryaboshapko, Evgeny D. Stukin
    Pages 149-155

  9. Estimation of Long-Term Consequences of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site for the Altai Population

    • Jakov N. Shoikhet, Anatoly I. Algazin, Valery I. Kiselev, Evgeny V. Zaitsev, Vladimir B. Kolyado, Vladimir A. Shevchenko et al.
    Pages 157-185

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-196
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This volume focuses on the human exposures and medical effects studies in the SemipaiatinskJ Altai region of Siberia that were a consequence of the radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions that took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site of the former Soviet Union. It contains a detailed account of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) devoted to the subject, and a selection of the papers presented. The title of the ARW was "Long-term Consequences of Nuclear Tests for the Environment and Population Health (SemipaiatinskJAltai Case Studies)". The estimated exposures to large numbers of people in the Altai lie in an important dose rate and dose domain. Hence the research reported herein provides new and unique information on the effects of radiation on humans. Also emphasized at the ARW were studies involving fallout from the Pacific Island tests of the U. S. A . . There have been over 2300 nuclear weapon test explosions to date. More than 500 took place in the atmosphere and outer space; the remainder were underground. The atmospheric tests comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. The vast majority, in number and yield, were carried out by the former Soviet Union (FSU) and the United States. Each superpower maintained two primary test sites, one continental primarily for small yield tests, and the other more remote for larger yield tests. For the U. S. A.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

    Charles S. Shapiro

  • Institute of Regional Medical and Ecological Problems, Barnaul, Russia

    Valerie I. Kiselev, Eugene V. Zaitsev

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