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Long-Term Human
Health Effects of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Activity
2001—2010
Project goal: search for
hypothetical radiation health effects in residents of the Semipalatinsk
Nuclear Test Site vicinity.
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It was a
retrospective cohort study of long-term radiation health effects in the
people resided in villages near the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests Site in Cold War
period of open nuclear tests in 1949—1965. Residence history was
reconstructed based on annual tax record documents stored at local
archives. Health impact was assessed based on death records in archives
of civil registry offices. Twenty thousand residents of vicinity of
test site were randomly sampled as a study group and for comparison
another twenty thousand cohort was randomly sampled of the people who
resided in the north of Pavlodar Region in the same time and had no
chance for irradiation from explosions.

This
large-scale project financed by the Japanese Government was executed by
the Radiation Effects Association (Japan) and the Center for Study and
Protection from Radiation Effects (Kazakhstan). I participated as
a
Vice-President of the Center and an expert responsible for development
of data base software and data input. Before this project started, I
took special training in radiation epidemiology at the Institute for
Radiation Medicine and Biology at the Hiroshima University, Japan.

As a result, there
was found no difference in the age and causes of deaths in these big
cohorts.
Search
keywords
Semipalatinsk
Nuclear Tests Site in Kazakhstan. Medical statistics. Long-term
research.
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