Population Health in Regions Adjacent to the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

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Abstract:

This research covers archived results of complex medical examinations done in the 1950s and 1960s by the Ministry of Health Minzdrav of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR. Inhabitants of several Kazakhstan regions were contaminated in different years by radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests at the Semipalatinsk test site. The demand for analyzing the archives came about because the health status of the population had deteriorated, and the incidence of cancer and cancer mortality had increased in Kazakhstan and other eastern regions of the Russian Federation Altai district, the Republic of Altai, and others. Although clinical and hematological examinations noted negligible variations in the indices of peripheral blood, these were of a reactive character. They could have been caused by the impact of radioactive substances on the human body however, no changes characteristic of radiation sickness were revealed. Also, functional deviations noted in certain organ systems could not be attributed to radioactive fallout because similar deviations were also observed in somatic and infectious diseases. The summary and analysis of the archives with their complex medical examinations of the population in the contaminated territories allow a more objective assessment of the impact of the atmospheric nuclear tests on the health of populations in different regions.

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
ARMED FORCES RADIOBIOLOGY RESEARCH INST BETHESDA MD
Supplementary Note:
Prepared in cooperation with Inst of Biophysics, Moscow and Physical Technical Center, Sarov.
Pagination:
0060

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
AFRRI-CR-98-4
Contract/Grant Number(s):
DNAC01-94-C-0121
Monitor Series:
AFRRI
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_7.2_Mitigate; JCA_7_Protection; JCA_7.2.1_Mitigate Lethal Effects; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_1.3.1_Personnel and Family Support; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_4.4_Logistics Services; JCA_4.4.1_Food Service; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_5.2.2_Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness
Modernization Areas:
Directed Energy
Communities of Interest:
Biomedical
Descriptor(s):
*FALLOUT, *RADIATION SICKNESS, *NUCLEAR EXPLOSION TESTING, *MORTALITY RATE, *SITE INVESTIGATIONS, *POPULATION, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOACTIVITY, INDEXES, HUMAN BODY, TEST FACILITIES, BLOOD, MEDICAL EXAMINATION, CANCER, EAST(DIRECTION), ORGANS(ANATOMY), HEMATOLOGY, INHABITANTS, REGIONS, REACTIVITIES, CLINICAL MEDICINE, AIRBURST, HEALTH, USSR, IMPACT
Field(s)/Group(s):
Sociology and Law, Radiobiology, Nuclear Weapons
Keyword(s):
SEMIPATALINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITES
Report Date:
1998 Sep 01
Creation Date:
1999 Feb 24