Nuclear Tests
Subtitle: Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai Region
By: edited by Charles S. Shapiro, Valerie I. Kiselev, Eugene V. Zaitsev
Contributors: Kiselev, Valerie I.; Zaitsev, Eugene V.
Series: NATO ASI Series, 2. Environment -- 36; NATO ASI series -- 36.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783642637230; 9783642587764
Subjects: Nuclear fusion; Oncology; Environmental sciences; Environmental protection; Environmental Medicine; Nuclear physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Long- Term Consequences of Nuclear Tests for the Environment and Population Health (Semipalatinsk/Altai Case Study)", held in Barnaul, Russia, September 5-10, 1994
Description: The first Soviet atomic bomb test, which took place at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan on 29 August 1949, was the most egregious test by far in terms of collective exposures to local fallout. This volume is devoted to this first, and to further nuclear weapon test explosions in the Semipalatinsk/Altai region. It analyses the environmental and human consequences of the radioactive fallout and presents detailed accounts, never published before in the West, of the methodologies of Russian scientists in source term analysis, dose reconstruction, and medical effects studies.
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