Alexander V. Akleyev

2014

More than 60 years have passed since the beginning of the Techa River radioactive contamination. However, those far-off events still attract a lot of attention. Health effects remain the main issue that bothers the population of the region and is of great interest for the international scientific community. In the last 20 years late health effects of the chronic radiation exposure in population became the focus of the numerous scientific research which were carried out under the auspices of the intergovernmental Russian–American Agreement, within the framework of Euroatom programs, were refl ected in United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) reports, and are widely discussed in scientific literature.