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Biodosimetry of Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia and Latvia using the glycophorin A in vivo somatic cell mutation assay.
Radiation research - 1 Feb 1997
Bigbee W L, Jensen R H, Veidebaum T, Tekkel M, Rahu M, Stengrevics A, Auvinen A, Hakulinen T, Servomaa K, Rytömaa T, Obrams G I, Boice J D
Abstract excerpt
The reactor accident at Chernobyl in 1986 necessitated a massive environmental cleanup that involved over 600,000 workers from all 15 Republics of the former Soviet Union. To determine whether the whole-body radiation received by workers in the course of these decontamination activities resulted in a detectable biological response, over 1,500 blood samples were obtained from cleanup workers sent from two Baltic...
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