Exposure to the Thyroid from Intake of Radioiodine Isotopes after the Chornobyl Accident. Report I: Revised Doses and Associated Uncertainties for the Ukrainian-American Cohort

• Published in: Radiation research Vol. 199; no. 1; p. 61
• Main Authors: Masiuk, Sergii, Chepurny, Mykola, Buderatska, Valentyna, Ivanova, Olga, Boiko, Zulfira, Zhadan, Natalia, Mabuchi, Kiyohiko, Cahoon, Elizabeth K, Little, Mark P, Kukush, Alexander, Bogdanova, Tetiana, Shpak, Victor, Zamotayeva, Galyna, Tronko, Mykola, Drozdovitch, Vladimir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Adolescent; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; Humans; Iodine Radioisotopes; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced - epidemiology; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced - etiology; Radiation Dosage; Tellurium - analysis; Thyroid Gland; Thyroid Neoplasms - epidemiology; Ukraine - epidemiology; Uncertainty; Ukraine

Thyroid doses from intake of radioiodine isotopes (131I, 132Te+132I, and 133I) and associated uncertainties were revised for the 13,204 Ukrainian-American cohort members exposed in childhood and adolescence to fallout from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident. The main changes related to the r...