REACTOR; CONTAMINATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENT; FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; REACTOR ACCIDENTS 3roader Terms: ACCIDENTS; ALKALI METAL ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IONIZING RADIATIONS; ISOTOPES; LWGR! TYPE REACTORS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; POWER REACTORS; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; VARIATIONS; WATER COOLED / : REACTORS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES Subject Categories: 560101* -- Biomedical Sciences, Applied Studies -Radiation Effects -- Dosimetry & Monitoring -- (1992-) 560151 ‘-- Radiation Effects on Animals -- Man INIS Subject Categories: C5500* -- Personnel Dosimetry & Monitoring C1500 -- Effects of External Radiation on Man 10/5/324 (Item 24 from file: 103) 03369935 JPN-92-007488; EDB-92-132692 Title: An observation report on the late effects of the disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Author(s): Satow, Yukio; Oguma, Nobuo; Kimura, Akiro (Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. for Nuclear Medicine and Biology); Takeichi, Nobuo; Yamada, Hideo; Rozanskiy, V.; Vasilets, A.; Tachiana, S.; Antipkin, Y. Source: Hiroshima Igaku (Journal of the Medical Association) (Japan) v 45:2. Coden: HIRGA ISSN: 0367-5904 Publication Date: Feb 1992 p 159-173 Document Type: Journal Article Language: In Japanese Journal Announcement: EDB9218 Subfile: from) ) ETD (Energy Technology Data Exchange) . JPN (Japan (sent to DOE US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP Country of Origin: Japan Country of Publication: Japan Abstract: As part of international medical cooperation for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, the authors participated in four fact-finding surveys for the aftermath in May 1990, and May, June, and July 1991. This report gives an outline of the surveys, with the purpose of providing the basic information for the future countermeasures. The focus of this paper is on medical surveys for hematopoietic disease (mainly leukemia), infantile thyroid abnormality, and congenital. abnormality. In 8 children undergoing hematopoietic examination, accumulated exposure doses were all one rad or less. Infantile leukemia is discussed in terms of exposure doses, radioactivity, radiation-related leukemic types, and the future management. The results of thyroid examination performed in 40 persons at a hospital in the Ukraine are presented: 17 persons were noted to have sclerosing struma associated with atrophy. Incidence of thyroid cancer, presented from two facilities of the Ukraine and four facilities of the Belorussia, is reported. Thyroid abnormality is discussed in terms of radioiodine, I-131 treatment in Basedow’s survivors, and Chernobyl pediatric survivors. The final topic, congenital abnormality, covers the information on fetal and neonatal death and the occurrence of anomaly obtained from reliable physicians in the Belorussia, and is discussed in terms of exposure doses. Finally, problems encountered in surveys for the aftermath are also mentioned. (N.K.). Major Descriptors: *CHERNOBYLSK-~4 REACTOR -- REACTOR ACCIDENTS; *LEUKEMIA ~~ DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS Descriptors: CARCINOMAS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE 131; MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS; NEONATES; RADIATION DOSES; RADIONUCLIDE ADMINISTRATION; THYROID Broader Terms: ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASES; DOSES; ENDOCRINE DISEASES; 5003611 disease, Bikini nuclear exlosion, Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb