Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal and Emergency Situations

373 Pages·2006·3.51 MB·English

by  Arrigo A. Cigna

Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal
and Emergency Situations
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Series B: Physics and Biophysics –Vol. 9
Radiation Risk Estimates in
Normal and Emergency Situations
edited by
Arrigo A. Cigna
Past-President Union Internationale de Radioecologie,
Cocconato (Asti), Italy
and
Marco Durante
University Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on
Impact of Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal and Emergency Situations
Yerevan, Armenia
8--11 September 2005
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Dedicated to the memory of

Vladimir Andreevich Shevchenko
and
Vladimir Ivanovich Korogodin
v
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Biography of Vladimir Andreevich Shevchenko xiii
Biography of Vladimir Ivanovich Korogodin xvii
Part 1 - Nikolay Wladimirovitch Timoféeff-Ressovsky: the man and
the scientist. (1900-1981) 1
TIMOFÉEF-RESSOVSKY: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE
V. BABKOFF 3
FROM THE MUTATION THEORY TO THE THEORY OF
THE MUTATION PROCESS
S. G. INGE-VECHTOMOV 15
N.V. TIMOFEEFF-RESSOVSKY’S VIEWS AS THE BASIS OF
RADIOECOLOGICAL STUDIES
I. MOLCHANOVA, E. KARAVAEVA, A. TRAPEZNIKOV
27
LIVING MATTER AND BIOSPHEROLOGY
G. V. GUEGAMIAN 35
Part 2 - Nuclear accidents and weapons 47
RADIOECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CHNPP
ACCIDENT IN THE WESTERN EUROPE AND ADJACENT
AREA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE MODERN
PROBLEMS OF RADIOECOLOGY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
A. A. CIGNA 49
DOSE RATES AND EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ENVIRONMENTAL
RADIATION ON HYDROBIONTS WITHIN THE CHERNOBYL
EXCLUSION ZONE
D. GUDKOV, N. SHEVTSOVA, O. DZYUBENKO,
M. KUZMENKO, A. NAZAROV 69
vii
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS
EFFECTS OF CONTAMINANT EXPOSURE ON PLANTS
S.A. GERAS’KIN, V.G. DIKAREV, A.A. OUDALOVA, D.V.
VASILIEV, T.A. BAYKOVA, N.S. DIKAREVA 77
VARIABILITY AND VIABILITY OF SEED PLANT
POPULATIONS AROUND THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
V.L. KOROGODINA, V.P. BAMBLEVSKY, B.V. FLORKO
V.I.KOROGODIN 85
RADIOSENSITIVITY OF CHROMOSOME APPARATUS OF VOLES
FROM ALIENATION ZONE OF CHERNOBYL’S ACCIDENT
O.A. KOVALOVA, T.T. GLAZKO 95
STRATEGY OF BIOLOGICAL RADIATION PROTECTION
OF BIOTA AT THE RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATED
TERRITORIES
I.N. GUDKOV 101
POPULATION-GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE
ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE (CHERNOBYL’S EXAMPLE)
V.I. GLAZKO 109
PRINCIPLES AND RESULTS OF GENETIC MONITORING
OF CHEMICAL MUTAGENS AND RADIATION EFFECTS
IN ARMENIA
R. AROUTIOUNIAN 127
ESTIMATION OF SOMATIC GENE MUTAGENESIS
IN PATIENTS WITH BENIGN TUMORS LIVING IN
RADIATION CONTAMINATED REGIONS WITH
DIFFERENT137CESIUM DENSITY
I.A. ZAMULAEVA, L.S. MKRTCHYAN, L.I. KRIKUNOVA,
S.G. SMIRNOVA, N.V. ORLOVA, A.S. SAENKO 137
RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH EFFECTS 20 YEARS AFTER
THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT: DATA OF THE NATIONAL
RADIATION AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REGISTRY
V. IVANOV, A. TSYB 143
CASUALTIES AND RADIATION DOSIMETRY OF THE
ATOMIC BOMBINGS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
T. IMANAKA 149
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
Part 3 - Radiation effects: the environment 157
RADIOECOLOGY: HISTORY AND STATE-OF-THE-ART AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY
R.M. ALEXAKHIN 159
LOW DOSE RADIATION EFFECTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT:
IS THE FEAR OR THE SCIENCE IRRATIONAL?
C. SEYMOUR, C. MOTHERSILL l69
RADIOCAPACITY: CHARACTERISTIC OF STABILITY AND
RELIABILITY OF BIOTA IN ECOSYSTEMS
Y. KUTLAKHMEDOV, V. KOROGODIN, V. RODINA
S. PCHELOVSKYA 175
TRITIUM IN WATER SYSTEMS OF URAL REGION
M. CHEBOTINA, O. NICOLIN 187
THE PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS INCLUDING
LOW DOSES OF RADIATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT
C. MOTHERSILL, C. SEYMOUR 197
Part 4 - Radiation effects: humans 209
DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF MANKIND AND BIOSPHERE
I. POPOV 211
ASSESSMENT OF RADIATION GENETIC RISK IN MAN
V.A. SHEVCHENKO 219
TARGETS, HITS AND TRACKS
J. KIEFER 229
RADIATION CYTOGENETICS: THE COLOR REVOLUTION
M. DURANTE 243
THE MINIMUM DETECTABLE DOSE BY BIODOSIMETRY
IN A RADIATION OVEREXPOSURE
D.C. LLOYD, A.A. EDWARDS, M. SZ(cid:224)UI(cid:275)SKA 253
A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF SIDE
DOSES IN RADIOTHERAPY
A.A. CIGNA 259
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Part 5: Mutations 269
MUTATION AND DNA REPAIR: FROM THE GREEN
PAMPHLET TO 2005
J.W. DRAKE 271
CANALIZATION AND EVOLVABILITY: TEMPERING THE
EFFECTS OF MUTATION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
K. MCMANUS,C.A. SCANNELL, S. RUTHERFORD, C.C. CAREY 283
EFFECTS OF CHRONIC LOW-LEVEL IRRADIATION
ON RADIOSENSITIVITY OF MAMMALS: MODELING
AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
O. SMIRNOVA, M. YONEZAWA 291
PROLONGED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS INDUCES
MUTATIONS AND PROVIDES NONSPECIFIC ADAPTATION
OF DROSOPHILA POPULATIONS
I.B. MOSSE, I.V. GLUSHKOVA, I.P. ANOSHENKO, V. AKSYUTIKT 301
MODULATION OF MUTATION RATES AND ADAPTATION
OF BACTERIA
I. MATIC 309
NUCLEAR CYTOPLASMIC INTERACTION HYPOTHESIS
AND THE ROLE OF TRANSLOCATIONS IN NICOTIANA
ALLOPOLYPLOIDS
A.R. LEITCH, K.Y. LIM, K. SKALICKA, A. KOVARIK 319
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF RADIOSENSITIVE
MUTANT ALLELE OF PROTEIN KINASE ycdc28-srm [G20S]
USING hcdk2 AS MODEL
D. KRETOV, N. KOLTOVAYA, K. KHOLMURODOV 327
GENOME RECONSTITUTION IN THE EXTREMELY RADIATION
RESISTANT BACTERIUM DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS
J.R. BATTISTA, M.M. COX 341
List of Authors 361