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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on March 28, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn074
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Czech Republic 20 years after Chernobyl accident

Jozef Rosina1, Eugen Kvasnák1,*, Daniel Suta1, Tomás Kostrhun1 and Dana Drábová2

1 Department of Medical Biophysics and Medical Informatics, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Ruská 87, 100 42 Prague 10, Czech Republic
2 State Office for Nuclear Safety, Prague, Czech Republic

* Corresponding author: eugen.kvasnak{at}pf3.cuni.cz

Received October 25, 2007, amended January 11, 2008, accepted February 21, 2008

The territory of the Czech Republic was contaminated as a result of the breakdown in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. The Czech population received low doses of ionising radiation which, though it could not cause a deterministic impact, could have had stochastic effects expressed in the years following the accident. Twenty years after the accident is a long enough time to assess its stochastic effects, primarily tumours and genetic impairment. The moderate amount of radioactive fallout received by the Czech population in 1986 increased thyroid cancer in the following years; on the other hand, no obvious genetic impact was found.


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