Objective
Over the past few years, radiation safety in the countries of the NIS has acquired a particular urgency. The Government of Kazakhstan has set up the Atomic Energy Agency of Kazakhstan (AEAK) which identified as one of the most important tasks the need to address the issue of nuclear explosions carried out until 1987, in particular, the Semipalatinsk test ground for nuclear weapons, and also other sites such as the Azgir underground nuclear explosion site, the GALIT-facility (near Atyrau), the Region 2-project (Urals) and the MERIDIAN-project (Chimkent Province).
This research project will reconstruct past environmental radiation exposure conditions; assess the present environmental radiation exposure levels in the former nuclear test-site areas; determine the past. present and future radiation doses resulting for the inhabitants of areas adjacent to the former nuclear test-site areas; and evaluate future follow-up work in terms of environmental dosimetry and health monitoring.
For the reconstruction of past exposure situations existing data collections will be reviewed. Comprehensive environmental sampling techniques, developed and tested during the post-Chernobyl period in Europe and already employed within the IAEA international Chernobyl project, will be used to obtain statistically representative data. This survey will consider soil, water, vegetation, air and food samples and eventually samples from humans (e.g. blood) from selected areas in and around nuclear test sites. These samples will be analysed by low-level alpha and gamma spectrometry, approved radiochemical procedures and beta counting. Internal and biological dosimetry will be used for biological samples. The environmental radionuclide data, together with representative data obtained from biological end points and characterising the life style of the inhabitants of the potentially affected areas, will be used as input parameters for individual and collective dose assessments.
The following results are expected: assessment of the past and future radiation doses for different population groups in areas afffected by nuclear weapon testing in the Semipalatinsk region; assessment of the genetic damage in the selected population groups possibly differentiated into different age groups; establishment of an environmental database of the areas affected by fall-out; and assessment of the present environmental radiation exposure levels to be used in future environmental management projects.
The results will be published in refereed journals, form a basis for radiation risk assessment, and help Kazakh institutions establish further monitoring and counter measures for contaminated regions.
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