著者

Naomi HAYASHIDA Yui SEKITANI Alexander KOZLOVSKY Ruslan RAFALSKY Alexander GUTEVICH Valery DANILIUK Shunichi YAMASHITA Noboru TAKAMURA

出版者

Journal of Radiation Research Editorial Committee

雑誌

Journal of Radiation Research (ISSN:04493060)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.5, pp.629-633, 2011 (Released:2011-09-27)

参考文献数

12

被引用文献数

13 4

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During the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) accident on 26 April 1986, large amounts of radionuclides were released and spread to vast areas. Inhabitants residing around CNPP have been exposed to external and internal irradiation due to the long half-life of 137Cs (30 years). In this study, we screened for internal whole-body 137Cs concentration using a whole-body counter in the Zhitomir state of Ukraine. The total number of participants was 144,972 (96,149 females and 48,823 males). The median body burden of 137Cs per body weight decreased from 1996 to 2008. In particular, after 2003, more than half of subjects had internal exposure doses below the detectable level. A weak seasonal effect was found in measurement data from 1997 to 1999, but no such effects were observed in later years. We also calculated annual dose for each year and confirmed that doses have been decreasing gradually. In particular, after 2003, the annual effective dose decreased to 0.1 mSv y–1 for 95% of the participants. Only two persons were found to have received more than 5 mSv y–1 since 2007. Although the health effects of 137Cs body burden due to the Chernobyl accident remain uncertain, further screening is needed to monitor the health status and to allay the anxiety of inhabitants in the contaminated areas around CNPP.

著者

Yasuyuki TAIRA Naomi HAYASHIDA Sergey ZHAVARANAK Alexander KOZLOVSKY Anatoly LYZIKOV Shunichi YAMASHITA Noboru TAKAMURA

出版者

The Japan Endocrine Society

雑誌

Endocrine Journal (ISSN:09188959)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.56, no.2, pp.257-261, 2009 (Released:2009-04-29)

参考文献数

26

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In 2007, we screened urinary iodine (UI) concentrations in urban (Gomel city) and in rural areas (Hoiniki city) of the Gomel Region, Republic of Belarus, which was heavily contaminated by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in order to evaluate the current state of iodine supplementation in these areas. Median levels of UI were 220.5 μg/L (151.5-358.5) μg/L in Gomel city, and 228.0 μg/L (130.0-337.5) μg/L in Hoiniki city. Urinary concentrations in Gomel city were significantly improved, as compared to our previous results in 2000 (p<0.001). There were no differences of UI concentrations between Gomel city and Hoiniki city (p = 0.39), and none of the samples showed moderate (<50 μg/L) or severe (<20 μg/L) iodine deficiency in either city. These results suggest that the state of iodine supplementation has improved in rural areas, as well as in urban areas in the Republic of Belarus, probably due to appropriate fortification of iodized salt in this region.