20 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: Past, Present & Future

Radiobiology has made great steps forward in the last five years in the development of new mechanisms forming the basis of various radiation effects, specifically among the mechanisms of low rate irradiation by low doses. Investigations of radiation apoptosis, radiation hormesis, radioadaptive response, and by-stander effects have been intensively developed. Processes of premature ageing induced by irradiation are examined. All these questions are discussed here. The greatest part is devoted to assessments of the health of the population irradiated inhabiting the radionuclide-contaminated territories and people from other regions of the former USSR involved in the liquidation on the accident consequences.

Preface; The Significance of Cytogenetic Examination for Assessment of the Chernobyl Catastrophe Consequences; Somatic Mutagenesis at T-cell receptor Locus in Residents of Radionuclide Contaminated Areas of the Russian Federation as a result of the Chernobyl Accident; The Results of Dynamic Cytogenetic Study of Children and Teenagers Living on the Territories after Radiation-Contaminated the Chernobyl Accident; The Problem of Induced Genome Instability as the Basis for Elevated Morbidity among Children Exposed by Low-Rate Radiation at Small Doses; Complex Cytogenetic Characteristics of People Suffering from the Chernobyl Accident; The Questions of Health Monitoring of Children Subject to Radiation Impact; Molecular-Genetic Analysis of DNA Polymorphism in Descendants of Mice Exposed to Chronic and Acute Radiation at Different Stages of Specmatogenesis; Radiation-Epidemiological Studies of Thyroid Cancer Incidence Among Children and Adolescents in the Bryansk Oblast of Russia after the Chernobyl Accident; The Health State of the Chernobyl Accident Liquidators: Immunologist s Opinion 20 Years After; To the 20th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident. Medical Consequences in Armenia; Genetic Monitoring of Natural Drosophila Populations in Radiation Contaminated Regions of Belarus; Results of Investigations Performed in the Chernobyl Accident Zone and Practical Results of the Accident Consequences Liquidation in the Agricultural Sector of the Russian Federation; Radiation Damage of Plants in the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Impact Zone; Cytogenetic Indices of English Oak; Seminal Progeny Subject to Radioactive Radiation in the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and Growing on Territories with Different Levels of Anthropogenic Contamination; Radionuclides in Components of Aquatic Ecosystems of the Chernobyl Accident Restriction Zone; The Estimation of Chernobyl Accident Influence on the Natural Populations of the Black Sea Basin Hydrobionts by Cytogenetic Criteria; Biochemical Consequences of Radioactive Contamination in the Exclusive Zone of the Chernobyl Accident in Populations of Wild Rodents; Twenty Years After the Chernobyl Accident -- Is it Much or Not?; Index.