F OLLOWING THE APRIL 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the Soviet government evacuated 135,000 people living in the immediate vicinity of the plant, mobilized workers to clean up the site and surrounding areas, and called on outside governments and organizations to render medical aid and help in the assessment of health effects related to radiation exposure. A series of contacts ...

The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, based at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, has extensive experience in helping to develop and validate assays and has provided strong support in developing World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) norms. This paper will focus on enzyme-linked immunosorbent a...

A research project on comparative international studies of osteoporosis using isotope techniques was organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with the participation of 12 countries (Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Hungary, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). Participating centers in 11 countries (all but the UK) made measuremen...

Radiation protection in the use of ionizing radiation in medicine is becoming more and more important because of its increasing use for imaging and therapy and because of complex procedures and technology. The US study showed that the population dose due to medical uses of ionizing radiation increased to about 49% of the total population radiation dose in year 2006 [1]. The increase is due to t...

Within the Information System on Occupational Exposure in Medicine, Industry and Research (ISEMIR), a new International Atomic Energy Agency initiative, a Working Group on interventional cardiology, aims to assess staff radiation protection (RP) levels and to propose an international database of occupational exposures. A survey of regulatory bodies (RBs) has provided information at the country ...

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA ISBN 978–92–0–127710–7 ISSN 2075–3772 This publication was developed by an international group of experts as an integral part of the IAEA’s efforts to contribute to the transfer of technology and capacity building in the use of nuclear and isotopic techniques to assist Member States in their efforts to improve the nutrition and health of infants and you...

In April, 1996, a joint international conference ("One Decade after Chernobyl") was held in Vienna, Austria in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission (EC). In this meeting, they came to the conclusion that the abnormality of health condition definitely related to the Chernobyl accident was only thyroid canc...

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Dynamical spin correlation function in a frustrated two-leg spinladder system TAKANORI SUGIMOTO, MICHIYASU MORI, ASRC, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, TAKAMI TOHYAMA, YITP, Kyoto University, SADAMICHI MAEKAWA, ASRC, Japan Atomic Energy Agency; CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency — We ...