Open AccessBiological effect of small doses of ionizing radiation and problems of radiation safety rate fixing
Author(s) -
P. V. Ramzaev
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj90456
Subject(s) - ionizing radiation , context (archaeology) , irradiation , radiation , dose rate , nuclear medicine , normative , collective dose , probabilistic logic , radiation dose , radiation injury , medical physics , radiation protection , physics , medicine , radiation therapy , biology , nuclear physics , political science , statistics , mathematics , surgery , paleontology , law
Medico-biological consequences of radiation accidents are considered in the context of linear relationship on the model of dose-effect and probabilistic stochastic changes without a threshold. If the first group of changes occurs proportionally to the individual irradiation dose, so the second group is reliably tracked by the calculation of the collective irradiation dose. The damage caused to public health by the Chernobyl accident is approximately 20 times smaller than by nuclear explosions in Hirosima and Nagasaki. The principles to develop the new normative documents on radiation safety are presented.