title: Increased occupational radiation doses: nuclear fuel cycle.
abstract: The increased occupational doses resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, the reactor accident of Fukushima that took place in Japan in March 2011, and the early operations of the Mayak Production Association in Russia in the 1940s and 1950s are presented and discussed. For comparison purposes, the occupational doses due to the other two major reactor accidents (Windscale in the United Kingdom in 1957 and Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979) and to the main plutonium-producing facility in the United States (Hanford Works) are also covered but in less detail. Both for the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and the routine operations at Mayak, the considerable efforts made to reconstruct individual doses from external irradiation to a large number of workers revealed that the recorded doses had been overestimated by a factor of about two.Introduction of Increased Occupational Exposures: Nuclear Industry Workers. (Video 1:32, http://links.lww.com/HP/A21).
authors.affiliation: *National Cancer Institute (retired), 9609 Medical Drive, Room 7E590, MSC 9778, Rockville, MD 20850; †Federal Medical Biological Agency, Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, 46 Zhivopisnaya Street, 123182, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouville
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kryuchkov
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants / Q000266:history*; D009688:Nuclear Reactors / Q000266:history; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000266:history*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release / Q000266:history; D011874:Radiometry