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The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

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Author	Dercon, Gerd Naletoski, Ivancho Yamada, Yukiko Ishida, Hiroki Blackburn, Carl Nielen, Stephan Byron, David H. Simmonds, Jane Verger, Philippe Nguyen, Minh-Long Liang, Qu
Copyright Year	1965
Abstract	The Chernobyl accident was probably the worst possible catastrophe of a nuclear power station. It was the only such catastrophe since the advent of nuclear power 55 years ago. It resulted in a total meltdown of the reactor core, a vast emission of radionuclides, and early deaths of 31 persons. Its enormous political, economic, social and psychological impact was mainly due to deeply rooted radiophobia induced by the linear non-threshold (LNT) assumption on radiation health effects. It was an historic event that provided invaluable lessons for nuclear industry and risk philosophy. The accident demonstrated that using the LNT assumption as a basis for protection measures and radiation dose limitations was counterproductive, and led to sufferings and pauperization of millions of inhabitants of contaminated areas. The projections of thousands of late cancer deaths based on LNT are in conflict with observations that in comparison with general population of Russia, a 15% to 30% deficit of solid cancer mortality was found among the Russian emergency workers, and a 5% deficit of solid cancer incidence among the population of most contaminated areas.
Starting Page	14
Ending Page	14
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1038/206014c0
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA_Personal_Perspectives/jaworowski_chernobyl.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.unis.unvienna.org/pdf/2014/UNSCEAR_Presentation_2_April_2014.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2013/UNSCEAR_2013A_C-8_FAO_IAEA_food_database_2014-07.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://gnssn.iaea.org/RTWS/modaria/Shared%20Documents/2nd%20MODARIA%20Technical%20Meeting%20(11-15%20November%202013)/13th%20November%202013%20-%20TM%20Special%20Plenary%20Presentations/01%20-%20UNSCEAR%20(M.%20Crick).pdf
PubMed reference number	13406694
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1038/206014c0
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	206
Journal	Nature
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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