title: [The need to account for beta radiation in determining the total radiation exposure of those working in cleanup].
abstract: The role of external beta-radiation as one of the major radiation factors effected persons involved in recovery operations (liquidators) after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is considered. The paper uses the data of discriminate individual dosimetric monitoring of beta- and gamma-radiation for different groups of liquidators and experimentally received dose distribution in tissue equivalent material in the places of carrying out work. The results obtained by calculation were also used. It was established that experimentally determined ratios of beta-radiation doses to gamma-radiation doses have a good correlation with estimates resulted by calculation. It allowed the authors to use these estimates and individual gamma-radiation dose distribution for drawing histograms of individual beta-radiation dose distribution for open parts of skin, for lens, and gonads in cases of liquidators involved in building "sarcophagus". The obtained estimates of individual doses in the near surface tissue and organs exceeds significantly exposure levels for the whole body. This fact should draw the special attention to the rise in the number of radiation-induced cancer and cataracts.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Osanov
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Kriuchkov
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D001610:Beta Particles; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000528:radiation effects; D008889:Military Personnel; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011210:Power Plants; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D012867:Skin / Q000528:radiation effects; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013997:Time Factors; D014455:Ukraine