
Nuclear Tests
Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai Region
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 22. January 1998
Book
Hardback
XI, 196 pages
978-3-540-63805-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1998
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XI, 196 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-63805-6 (9783540638056)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-58776-4
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Content
Report of the Scientific Secretary.- Overview of the Nato/Scope-Radtest Advanced Research Workshop in Barnaul, Siberia.- Chronological List of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site and Their Radiation Effects.- On the Possibility of Identifying Nuclear-Explosion Radioactive Patterns and Reconstructing Population-Exposure Doses Using the Analysis of Long-Lived Radionuclides.- Estimation of the Altai Region Population Exposure Resulting from the Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site.- Basis of the Retrospective Reconstruction Method for Parameters Determining Internal Irradiation Along the Trace Following a Nuclear Explosion.- Initial Approaches to the Establishment of a Russian Data Bank on Nuclear Explosions and Compatibility with Similar Foreign Data Banks.- Estimation of Long-Term Consequences of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site for the Altai Population.- List of Workshop Presentations.- List of Participants.