The Chernobyl Disaster and Its Ecological-Genetic Consequences 16 Years Through - The Specialists’s Opinion. K. P. Checherov, RSC "Kurchatovski Institute", Russia; A. I. Glouchtchenko, Ben-Gurion University, Israel; and I. I. Suskov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
As the authors believe, the explosion identical to nuclear has been happened of April 26, 1986 on the Chernobylskaya nuclear plant in former USSR( the acceleration of the energetical reactor RBMK-1000 on the so named "instantaneous neutrons of fission"). The pit of reactor is empty, outside block was effluented more than one billion (milliard) Kuri [1,2]. The works of Russian and Israeli radiobiologists and genetics of the last years [3-5], are important especially. The medical-biological effects from the incorporated radiocesium are discussed in [3]. As it has shown in [4], the exposure to low-dose radiation could cause the heritable changes in germ cells and lead to increased load of "de novo" mutations in the progeny of the Chernobyl liquidators. It’s demonstrated in [5] that the regularity of the chromosome instability induction does not correspond to the classical conception of the radiation genetics (hit principle and target theory). The mechanism and the biological significance of this new genetic phenomenon in the child organism under conditions of low-intensive effect of small-dose radiation and its connection with the state of health are discussed. So the problem of creation of the all-European network of the ecological-genetic monitoring (see, for example,[6]) acquires the sharp actuality today.
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