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NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON LONG-TERM
CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR TESTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND
POPULATION HEALTH (SEMIPALATINSK/ALTAI CASE STUDY)
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop, examining the
long-term consequences of Nuclear Tests for the
Environment and Population Health (Semipalatinsk/Altai
Case Study), is being held from 5-9 September 1994, in
Barnaul, Siberia, Russia. Co-directors are Profs.
Charles S. Shapiro (San Francisco State
University/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
and Yakov Shoikhet (Altai Medical Institute, Russia).
The meeting is co-sponsored by the International
Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) and is organized by
the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
This workshop includes a case study of radioactive
fallout in Russia's Altai region that emanated primarily
from nuclear tests undertaken in the Semipalatinsk test
site in Kazakhstan. Earlier findings indicated that
very large radiation exposures were received by large
groups of civilian populations in the Altai region, and
resulted in significant health effects. The region thus
provides a unique database and opportunity for comparing
new data on potential human health effects with
other studies such as those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
For the first time, nuclear test experts from the USA,
Western Europe, Russia and China, who were never before
allowed to communicate directly with each other,
will be able to compare their research findings.
Experts from the USA will make a detailed presentation
on the US test programme at their South Pacific test
site. Experts participating from China will
present for the first time papers on fallout and its
effects in China. Three working groups are also
planned: (a) database of technical history of nuclear
tests, (b) dose reconstruction and dose prediction, and
(c) health effects (epidemiology, dose/response).
An important humanitarian dimension to the workshop
concerns the health of the local Altai population and
the environmental status of the region. Radioactivity
from the tests was deposited in all parts of Altai, but
with varying densities. The present population suffers
from uncertainty as to the effects of this radiation
exposure. The experts participating in the workshop
will thus examine with Russian experts the problems
associated with the Altai irradiations, and this will
hopefully aid the local communities in the efforts of
rehabilitation of the region.
For further information, please contact: Prof. Charles
S. Shapiro at San Francisco State University, fax
number: Int'l-1-415-338 21 78.