Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal and Emergency Situations

Cover......Page 1
NATO Security through Science Series......Page 3
Radiation Risk Estimates in
Normal and Emergency Situations......Page 4
ISBN-13 9781402049545 (HB)......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Biography of Vladimir Andreevich Shevchenko......Page 13
Biography of Vladimir Ivanovich Korogodin......Page 16
Part 1 - Nikolay Wladimirovitch Timoféeff-Ressovsky: the man and the scientist. (1900-1981)......Page 19
TIMOFÉEF-RESSOVSKY: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE......Page 20
FROM THE MUTATION THEORY TO THE THEORY OF THE MUTATION PROCESS......Page 32
N.V. TIMOFEEFF-RESSOVSKY'S VIEWS AS THE BASIS OF RADIOECOLOGICAL STUDIES......Page 44
LIVING MATTER AND BIOSPHEROLOGY......Page 52
Part 2 - Nuclear accidents and weapons......Page 64
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......Page 65
DOSE RATES AND EFFECTS OF CHRONIC ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION ON HYDROBIONTS WITHIN THE CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE......Page 84
EFFECTS OF CONTAMINANT EXPOSURE ON PLANTS......Page 92
VARIABILITY AND VIABILITY OF SEED PLANT POPULATIONS AROUND THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT......Page 99
RADIOSENSITIVITY OF CHROMOSOME APPARATUS OF VOLES FROM ALIENATION ZONE OF CHERNOBYL'S ACCIDENT......Page 108
STRATEGY OF BIOLOGICAL RADIATION PROTECTION OF BIOTA AT THE RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATED TERRITORIES......Page 114
POPULATION-GENETIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE ECOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE (CHERNOBYL'S EXAMPLE)......Page 122
PRINCIPLES AND RESULTS OF GENETIC MONITORING OF CHEMICAL MUTAGENS AND RADIATION EFFECTS IN ARMENIA......Page 140
ESTIMATION OF SOMATIC GENE MUTAGENESIS IN PATIENTS WITH BENIGN TUMORS LIVING IN RADIATION CONTAMINATED REGIONS WITH DIFFERENT [sup(137)] CESIUM DENSITY......Page 150
RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH EFFECTS 20 YEARS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT: DATA OF THE NATIONAL RADIATION AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REGISTRY......Page 155
CASUALTIES AND RADIATION DOSIMETRY OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI......Page 161
Part 3 - Radiation effects: the environment......Page 169
RADIOECOLOGY: HISTORY AND STATE-OF-THE-ART AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21[sup(st)] CENTURY......Page 170
LOW DOSE RADIATION EFFECTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: IS THE FEAR OR THE SCIENCE IRRATIONAL?......Page 180
RADIOCAPACITY: CHARACTERISTIC OF STABILITY AND RELIABILITY OF BIOTA IN ECOSYSTEMS......Page 186
TRITIUM IN WATER SYSTEMS OF URAL REGION......Page 197
THE PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS INCLUDING LOW DOSES OF RADIATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT......Page 207
Part 4 - Radiation effects: humans......Page 218
DIRECTED EVOLUTION OF MANKIND AND BIOSPHERE......Page 219
ASSESSMENT OF RADIATION GENETIC RISK IN MAN......Page 227
TARGETS, HITS AND TRACKS......Page 236
RADIATION CYTOGENETICS: THE COLOR REVOLUTION......Page 250
THE MINIMUM DETECTABLE DOSE BY BIODOSIMETRY IN A RADIATION OVEREXPOSURE......Page 260
A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE EVALUATION OF SIDE DOSES IN RADIOTHERAPY......Page 266
Part 5: Mutations......Page 276
MUTATION AND DNA REPAIR: FROM THE GREEN PAMPHLET TO 2005......Page 277
CANALIZATION AND EVOLVABILITY: TEMPERING THE EFFECTS OF MUTATION IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT......Page 288
EFFECTS OF CHRONIC LOW-LEVEL IRRADIATION ON RADIOSENSITIVITY OF MAMMALS: MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES......Page 296
PROLONGED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS INDUCES MUTATIONS AND PROVIDES NONSPECIFIC ADAPTATION OF DROSOPHILA POPULATIONS......Page 305
MODULATION OF MUTATION RATES AND ADAPTATION OF BACTERIA......Page 313
NUCLEAR CYTOPLASMIC INTERACTION HYPOTHESIS AND THE ROLE OF TRANSLOCATIONS IN NICOTIANA ALLOPOLYPLOIDS......Page 322
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF RADIOSENSITIVE MUTANT ALLELE OF PROTEIN KINASE ycdc28-srm [G20S] USING hcdk2 AS MODEL......Page 330
GENOME RECONSTITUTION IN THE EXTREMELY RADIATION RESISTANT BACTERIUM DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS......Page 343
List of Authors......Page 362