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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 123(4):515-528; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl528
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Radiation exposure to the population of Europe following the Chernobyl accident

V. Drozdovitch1,*, A. Bouville2, N. Chobanova3, V. Filistovic4, T. Ilus5, M. Kovacic6, I. Malátová7, M. Moser8, T. Nedveckaite4, H. Völkle8,9 and E. Cardis1

1 International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert-Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
2 DHHS, NIH, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, EPS 7094, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
3 National Center of Radiobiology and Radiation Protection, 132 K. Ohridski Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria
4 Institute of Physics, Savanoriu Avenue 231, Vilnius, Lt-2053, Lithuania
5 STUK Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, P.O. Box 14, FIN-00881 Helsinki, Finland
6 General Hospital ‘Sveti Duh’, ENT and Head and Neck Surgery Department, Ul. Sv. Duha 64, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
7 National Radiation Protection Institute, Srobárova 48, 10000 Praha 10, Czech Republic
8 Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Radiation Protection, 3003 Bern, Switzerland
9 University of Fribourg, 3 Chemin du Musée, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

* Corresponding author: drozdovitch{at}iarc.fr

Received August 30, 2006, amended November 22, 2006, accepted November 25, 2006


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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident an attempt has been made to evaluate the impact of the Chernobyl accident on the global burden of human cancer in Europe. This required the estimation of radiation doses in each of the 40 European countries. Dose estimation was based on the analysis and compilation of data either published in the scientific literature or provided by local experts. Considerable variability has been observed in exposure levels among the European populations. The average individual doses to the thyroid from the intake of 131I for children aged 1 y were found to vary from ~0.01 mGy in Portugal up to 750 mGy in Gomel Oblast (Belarus). Thyroid doses to adults were consistently lower than the doses received by young children. The average individual effective doses from external exposure and ingestion of long-lived radiocaesium accrued in the period 1986–2005 varied from ~0 in Portugal to ~10 mSv in Gomel Oblast (Belarus) and Bryansk Oblast (Russia). The uncertainties in the dose estimates were subjectively estimated on the basis of the availability and reliability of the radiation data that were used for dose reconstruction in each country.


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