Radiation Exposure Research – Human & Animal
*cesium bearing microparticles are a significant and dangerous component of fallout from the Fukushima disaster.
NEW – Misrepresented risk of thyroid cancer in Fukushima
Human radiation experiments in the US
The Green Run – US radioactive iodine 131 exposure of US citizens in 1949
Infant mortality in Japan after Fukushima
IPPNW_analyse_WHO_report_fukushima_011012
TomodachiShoreBasedRadStudyDTRA-TR-12-001
IPPNW Gesundheitliche_Auswirkungen_der_Atomkatastrophe_von_Fukushima_final
Fukushima Health Survey Documentation
Pages from ML12318A365 – March 29th, 2011 – Radiation readings from US Embassy in Tokyo
PTSD in Fukushima dogs from the evacuation zone
MEXT – Results of the Nuclide Analysis of Plutonium and Strontium by MEXT 9-30-2011
NIH – Food safety regulations: what we learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident.
DOE – Field radiation measurements Fukushima
DOE – Radiation air samples Fukushima
DOE – Radiation soil samples Fukushima
DOE – Aerial radiation readings, ground exposure and cesium deposition
*also see monitoring results pages for more DOE data
APHA – Radiation Exposure to the Population in Japan After the Earthquake
Journal of Environmental Rad – Food safety regulations: what we learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident
NIH – Indicators of the Fukushima radioactive release in NW Romania.
NIH – Radioactive pollution in Athens, Greece due to the Fukushima nuclear accident.
NIH – Observations of Fukushima fallout in Great Britain
Evidence of Plutonium In The Environment After Fukushima Daiichi Disaster
Fukushima Health Survey Methods Paper
Environmental Monitoring for the
Upper-Bound Radiation Dose Assessment Operation TOMODACHI
EditorialOnThyroidUltrasound1938.full
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis – Thyroid Disease Manager
Infant mortality in Japan after Fukushima
Sweden_i131_adultthyroid_2003_Dickman_11258_ftp
UNSCEAR_11-80076_Report_2008_Annex_D
UN statement on human rights & children http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/resources/child.asp
National Academies of Science – Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII Phase 2
US Universities – Radioactive Isotopes And Their Risks
The biobehavioral and neuroimmune impact of low-dose ionizing radiation
UK – Decontamination procedures
German study of childhood leukemia near nuclear power plants
Germany – Background information on the KiKK study
Germany – Release of significant amounts of radiation to environment during refueling
US study of childhood leukemia near nuclear power plants
Environmental Science Pollution Research Int. The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities.
NIRS – Plutonium Exposure
NIH – The role of miRNA in the direct and indirect effects of ionizing radiation
NIH – Suicide by Cesium
Wikipedia – Polonium exposure
Wikipedia – Alexander Litvinenko (died by polonium poisoning)
NIH – Fukushima Radiation Study Launched
NIH – The biobehavioral and neuroimmune impact of low-dose ionizing radiation.
Low Dose Radiation and 30 years half-life of 20 mSv
Radiat Environ Biophy – The role of miRNA in the direct and indirect effects of ionizing radiation
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity – The biobehavioral and neuroimmune impact of low-dose ionizing radiation (fatigue)
BMJ -Is cancer risk of radiation workers larger than expected?
Annals of Surgery – Latency Period of Thyroid Neoplasia After Radiation Exposure
Annals of Surgery – Recurrent thyroid cancer. Role of surgery versus radioactive iodine (I131)
Chronic Low Dose Exposure Cancer Risk Radioactive Concrete In Taiwan
Project Sunshine – report on human radiation experimentation and informed consent or lack of
NIH – Cerebrovascular diseases in nuclear workers first employed at the Mayak PA in 1948–1972 August 2011
Information on the 1957 Mayak explosion in Urals – Russia
MedicBD Kyshtym Disaster
MedicBD Mayak (nuclear facility)
Data Analysis and Physicochemical Modeling of the Radiation Accident in the Southern Urals in 1957
Global Security – Information on the Mayak nuclear weapons facility
Radiat Environ Biophy – Cerebrovascular diseases in nuclear workers first employed at the Mayak PA in 1948–1972
Radiat Environ Biophys – The Southern Urals radiation studies
Chernobyl Workers Exposure Dose ehp.1204996
Environmental Health Perspectives – ¹³⁷Cesium Exposure and Spirometry Measures in Ukrainian Children Affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Incident
Biology Letters – Insects around Chernobyl
Biology Letters – Reduced abundance of insects and spiders linked to radiation at Chernobyl 20 years after the accident
UNSCEAR – Exposures and effects of the Chernobyl Accident
Schizophrenia Bulletin – Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders in Persons Exposed to Ionizing Radiation as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident
University SC – Chernobyl birds have smaller brains
University SC – Chernobyl Research Initiative
University SC – list of Chernobyl research papers
Strahlentelex – Symposium collection of papers on Chernobyl – some on Mayak
Criticism and analysis of the Yablokov study
Strahlentelex – Yablokov study
(ed note, Yablokov’s study has a number of critics and claims of poor methodology, posting it here does not intend to give an endorsement either way)
Strahlentelex – index of Yablokov study
Pregnancy outcome after the Chernobyl accident
NEI Magazine – Chernobyl radiation affects bird brain size
Bandazhevsky – Non-cancerous Medical Conditions in Areas of Belarus Contaminated by Radioactivity from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
Malformations in a Chornobyl-Impacted Region
Hanford Health Information Network – Archives
Hanford Health Information Network – Radiation genetic & birth defects at Chernobyl and Hanford
RADIATION EXPOSURE – Stronium
Science Journal – Original baby tooth survey paper full text
The baby tooth survey – 1959 to 1961 tested for Stronium 90 in children’s teeth in the US
NY Times – Founder of the baby tooth survey dies
The Nation – 1959 article on the baby tooth survey
U of Missouri St. Louis – Files of the baby tooth survey
Scientific American – Interview with Barry Commoner
NIH – Linus Pauling papers (genetics and radiation)
RADIATION EXPOSURE – Plutonium
UK- Plutonium in children’s teeth from Selafield
Various Radiation Resources Europe & East Europe – Russia
Maria Medical Reactor – Poland Atomic Institute
Maria Medical Reactor home page
Moscow Uni Nuclear Physics Department
Canadian Medical Isotope Company That Works W/ Maria Reactor and RosAtom Reactor – Nordion
Krsko Nuclear Power Plant Slovenia
IAEA – EUROPE contacts
International nuclear safety center Ukraine
Ukraine meteorological agency – historical weather page
Ukraine Safety Ministry – Radiation safety
Ukraine radiation readings – upper corner of page live current only
NTI – profile on Ukraine