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Radiation‐induced Anomalies: Report of a Study Conducted in Chernobyl *
Author(s) -
SATOW Yukio,
LAZJUK Gennady,
TCHAIJUNUSOVA Nailya,
ROZENSON Raphail,
TAKEICHI Nobuo,
KIMURA Akiro,
KATOH Osamu,
KAWAISHI Kuniko
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
congenital anomalies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-4520
pISSN - 0914-3505
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4520.1995.tb00298.x
Subject(s) - interim , medicine , nuclear power plant , political science , law , nuclear physics , physics
At the 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Teratology Society held in July 1994, the first author was asked by President Hiroshi HARA to report on the results of the international joint study on congenital anomalies that we were conducting in the former Soviet Union. It was only a short time ago that the study was begun and long‐term observation needs to be made hereafter, but we made an interim report on the results obtained so far. In this report we describe (1) the results of a joint study made with Director Gennady Lazjuk of the Institute for Hereditary Diseases in Minsk, Republic of Belarus, mainly with regard to congenital anomalies that have increased after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, (2) the results obtained in a study made with Dr. Anatoly Vacilez, Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gomel District Hospital in Belarus, a heavily contaminated area in Belarus, and (3) the congenital anomalies that can be considered to have occurred as a result of the approximately 570 nuclear tests made over a period of 40 years from 1949 to 1989 in Semipalatinsk, Republic of Kazkh.