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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on December 13, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 123(4):554-556; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl506
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Radiological Conditions in the Dnieper River Basin: Assessment by an international expert team and recommendations for an action plan.

STI/PUB/1230, International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramer Strasse 5, P.O. Box 100, A-1400, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 92-0-104905-6, 200 pp, 2006, 38.00 Euro (softbound).

Bruce A. Napier

Bruce.Napier@pnl.gov

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This report from the International Atomic Energy Agency was prepared by a team of scientists from Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine as an assessment of radiological contamination of the Dnieper River, which flows through these three countries. The topics covered begin with radioactive sources (actual and potential) including areas affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, nuclear power plants along the river and its tributaries, uranium mining and ore processing, radioactive waste storage and disposal sites, and non-power sources, such as medicine, industry, and research. The report continues with an assessment of human exposures to radiation from these sources. An additional area of consideration is radiological ‘hot spots’ in the region. The report finishes with conclusions and recommendations to the regional governments for a strategic action plan and individual government national plans.

The discussion of regional contamination from Chernobyl fallout provides a succinct summary of the contamination from 90Sr, 137Cs, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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