Thyroid radiation pathology in children and adolescents. Lecture 1. The effect of small doses and the concept of the risk of the long-term consequences of the Chernobyl disaster | Zendy

Э. П. Касаткина | Zendy; Д. Е. Шилин | Zendy

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Thyroid radiation pathology in children and adolescents. Lecture 1. The effect of small doses and the concept of the risk of the long-term consequences of the Chernobyl disaster

Author(s) -

Э. П. Касаткина,

Д. Е. Шилин

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

problems of endocrinology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2308-1430

pISSN - 0375-9660

DOI - 10.14341/probl199743424-29

Subject(s) - nuclear disaster , chernobyl nuclear accident , nuclear power plant , scope (computer science) , radioactive iodine , fukushima nuclear accident , thyroid , nuclear power , radiological weapon , medicine , environmental health , biology , physics , ecology , surgery , programming language , computer science , nuclear physics

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (Chernobyl nuclear power plant) on April 26, 1986, in terms of its scope and totality of consequences, is the largest nuclear disaster of our time, a nationwide disaster affecting the fate of millions of people living in vast territories. The Chernobyl disaster is one of the global in the history of human civilization. It is widely recognized that it entailed a variety of widespread social consequences and medical problems. The unprecedented nature of a nuclear accident is primarily associated with irradiation of the thyroid gland in many people, especially children, with radioactive iodine.

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