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Re: Chernobyl thyroid doses ?
- To: Franta, "Jaroslav; Radsafe" <"Jaroslav; Radsafe">
- Subject: Re: Chernobyl thyroid doses ?
- From: Andrew, McEwan
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 04:21:48 -0600
Chernobyl thyroid doses ?Jaro Franta asked about thyroid doses from Chernobyl. A good reference is the UNSCEAR 2000 report (Annex J, Vol.2 Effects: Exposures and effects of the Chernobyl accident.)
To cite some figures for the Gomel contaminated region of Belarus 34 % of children under 1 year were estimated to have received thyroid doses above 2 Gy, and 15 % of all children in the 0-18 years range received doses above 2 Gy (a total of 4064 children out of 27 463). Average absobed doses to the thyroid of 0-7 year old children in rural Gomel were 1.1 Gy (Table 39). The mean thyroid dose to children less than 1 year evacuated from Belarusian villages was 4.3 Gy (Table 22).
Clearly there is a lot more information in the report.
Andrew McEwan
acmcewan@clear.net.nz