Fundamentals for the Assessment of Risks from Environmental Radiation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Assessment of Risks from Environmental Radiation

   • R. M. Tyrrell

   Pages 1-6

3. Assessing Risk at Low Doses

   • R. E. Shore

   Pages 7-14

4. Radiation Risks at Low Radiation Doses

   • V. K. Ivanov

   Pages 15-24

5. A Model of Two Reactions as Dose-Stochastic Radiological Effect Relationship and Estimation of Radiation Risks

   • M. M. Komochkov

   Pages 25-34

6. Epidemiological Studies for the Assessment of Risks from Environmental Radiation on Tundra Nentsi Population

   • L. P. Osipova, O. L. Posukh, K. P. Koutzenogii, F. V. Sukhorukov, V. G. Matveeva, A. S. Grafodatskii et al.

   Pages 35-42

7. Epidemiology

   • J. R. Goldsmith, M. R. Quastel

   Pages 43-51

8. German Uranium Miners

   • H. Rink

   Pages 53-58

9. Cytogenetic Risks in Gold-Ore Miners in Slovakia

   • M. Beno

   Pages 59-64

10. Radon Levels in New and Old Buildings

    • F. S. Erees, G. Yener

    Pages 65-68

11. Measuring Equipment for Photobiologically Effective Radiation

    • T. Q. Khanh

    Pages 69-74

12. Individual Extent of Solar UV Exposure in Every Day Life

    • P. Knuschke, A. Krins, M. Meurer

    Pages 75-80

13. Risk Assesssment

    • R. E. Shore, L. P. Osipova, W. Atwell, F. S. Erees, R. J. M. Fry, V. K. Ivanov et al.

    Pages 81-90

14. Radiation Chemistry of DNA

    • J. Cadet, M. Bardet, T. Delatour, T. Douki, D. Gasparutto, D. Molko et al.

    Pages 91-102

15. DNA Repair

    • C. Baumstark-Khan

    Pages 103-114

16. DNA Damage and Mutations Induced by Solar UV Radiation

    • E. Sage

    Pages 115-126

17. The Application of Comet and Micronucleus Assay for the Assessment of Individual Radiation Risk

    • W.-U. Müller, T. Bauch, C. Streffer

    Pages 127-134

18. Environmental Radiation Does Not Enhance the Tolerance of Yeast Cells to Acute Radiation Exposure

    • D. Frankenberg, K. Helmstaedter, J. Boehm, W. Pessara, M. Frankenberg-Schwager

    Pages 135-140

19. Biological UV Dosimetry of Environmental Radiation Based on DNA Damage

    • A. Bérces, S. Gáspár, G. Rontó

    Pages 141-148

20. Repair of UV-B-Induced Damage in Human Keratinocytes

    • R. Greinert, O. Boguhn, B. Volkmer, D. Harder, E. W. Breitbart

    Pages 149-154

Human health as well as aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are threatened from increa­ sing levels of environmental radiation of various sources, many of them of anthropoge­ nic causality: large areas of the former Soviet Union suffer from radioactive pollution, in particular after the Chemobyl accident; the increase in the incidence of UVB radiati­ on at the Earth's surface as a result of a progressive depletion of stratospheric ozone is a global problem that requires international concerted actions; in areas of former uranium mining the natural radiation level is substantially increased due to elevated radon levels; a growing portion of the population involved in air traffic is exposed to increased levels of natural radiation; and with the International Space Station an increasing number of astronauts will be exposed to the complex field of cosmic radiation. To estimate the corresponding risks, a better knowledge of the underlying radiobiological mechanisms at the molecular, cellular and system level is required. This book is the result of a multidisciplinary effort to discuss the current state of knowledge of the fundamental processes that result from interactions of environmental radiation -ionizing as well as UV radiation -with living matter and the existing radiati­ on protection concepts, and then to define future research work needed as fundamental information for the assessment of risks from increased levels of environmental radiation to human health and ecosystem balance. It comprises the key lectures and statements presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop.

• air
• assessment
• DNA
• health
• radiation
• radiation protection
• research
• Diagnostic Radiology

• Radiation Biology Section, DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany

  Christa Baumstark-Khan, Gerda Horneck

• Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biophysics, Brno, Czech Republic

  Stanislav Kozubek

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