Nuclear Tests: Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai Region

ISBN-13: 9783540638056 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 196 str.

C. S. Shapiro;Nato; Valerie I. Kiselev

Opis

The first Soviet atomic bomb test, which took place at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan on 29 August 1949, was the most egregious test by far in terms of collective exposures to local fallout. This volume is devoted to this first, and to further nuclear weapon test explosions in the Semipalatinsk/Altai region. It analyses the environmental and human consequences of the radioactive fallout and presents detailed accounts, never published before in the West, of the methodologies of Russian scientists in source term analysis, dose reconstruction, and medical effects studies.

Spis treści

Overview of the Proceedings and Papers at the Barnaul Workshop. Chronological List of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site and Their Radiation Effects. On the Possibility of Identifying Nuclear-Explosion Radioactive Patterns and Reconstructing Population-Exposure Doses Using an Analysis of Long-Lived Radionuclides. Estimation of the Altai Region Population Exposure Resulting from the Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site. Basis of the Retrospective Reconstruction Method for Parameters Determinating Internal Irradiation Along the Trace Following a Nuclear Explosion. Initial Approaches to the Establishment of a Russian Data Bank on Nuclear Explosions and Compatibility with Similar Foreign Data Banks. Estimation of Long-Term Consequences of Nuclear Tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site for the Altai Population.