Radiation Doses and Lifetime Attributable Risk of Cancer in Sweden after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident.

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Abstract

Methods for estimating radiological consequences in terms of radiation doses and cancer risks are needed for informed decisions on mitigation efforts after a radionuclide event. The 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident fallout in Sweden was used as a case study. Open-source data on annual sex-specific population data in 1-y classes by municipality (n = 290), counties (n = 21), and future projection were retrieved from Statistics Sweden from 1986 to 2035. Published organ dose coefficients, cancer risk coefficients, and established methods for dose calculations and cancer risk projections were applied to estimate organ absorbed doses (mGy), effective dose (mSv), collective dose (person-Sv), and lifetime attributable risk (LAR). Due to the geographically variable Chern

SUBMITTER: Tondel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646857 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature