The issue of minimizing the medical consequences for victims of radiation, including during the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, will remain relevant in the future.

This information is contained in the National Report of the Russian Federation to the 35th anniversary of the tragedy, fragments of which were published by RIA Novosti.

This is a document prepared by specialists from the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Emergencies, the Ministry of Health, FMBA, Roshydromet, Rospotrebnadzor and other organizations.

The report was published under the auspices of the Institute for the Safe Development of Nuclear Energy (IBRAE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In particular, specialists from the Russian National Radiation and Epidemiological Register (NRER) believe that the issue of increasing the effectiveness of medical care for people who received a dose of radiation due to the Chernobyl accident remains relevant 35 years after the incident.

Note that the NRER is a state information system of personal data of persons exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl disaster, other radiation accidents, and nuclear tests.

“Based on this, NRER specialists believe that the problem of minimizing medical consequences and increasing the effectiveness of medical care for people belonging to groups of increased radiation risk will remain relevant not only for the coming years, but also for the long term,” RIA Novosti quotes an excerpt from the report ...

On the basis of the analysis of medical and dosimetric data arrays, accumulated over 35 years since the accident, carried out by the NRED, experts attribute the increased incidence and mortality from leukemia among Russian liquidators in the first ten years after the accident to the radiation-induced consequences of the accident (about 50% above the spontaneous level) , a high incidence of thyroid cancer among people who were children and adolescents at the time of the accident and lived in areas with a pollution density of more than 5 curies per square kilometer (about 50% above the spontaneous level).

The NRER also mentioned in this list the excess over the spontaneous level of oncological morbidity among Russian liquidators (about 5%) and, possibly, among the population of the most contaminated territories (about 1%), both over the past 35 years after the accident, and, possibly, in subsequent years.

In addition, the NRER refers to the consequences of the accident as the excess over the spontaneous level of mortality from diseases of the circulatory system among the liquidators of entry in 1986-1987 (about 5%).

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Along with this, the report says that the situation in the areas affected by the accident has improved significantly by now.

Among other things, as the agency reports with reference to the document, the analysis of the causes of the 1986 accident raised the safety of nuclear energy in Russia to a qualitatively higher level.

Recall that on April 26, 1986, a reactor exploded at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

As a result of these events, a colossal release of radioactive substances into the external environment occurred.

The pollution affected the territories in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

The state commission, set up to investigate the incident in the USSR, blamed the plant on the incident.

Human intervention and foreign intelligence

As reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the retired major general of the FSB of Russia Anatoly Tkachuk, the version of the terrorist attack as the cause of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was considered very seriously.

“We interviewed many people who witnessed unusual phenomena that could indirectly speak of human intervention,” Tkachuk quotes RIA Novosti.

He also spoke about the version concerning violations during the construction of the nuclear power plant.

“In the end, after the investigation, as we know, the actions of the personnel of the fourth power unit, the human factor, which brought the reactor into a state where an explosion was inevitable, were named as the cause of the accident,” Tkachuk added.

According to him, declassified documents about the accident indicate that the station personnel may have had difficulties with discipline.

“Probably, people thought that there could be no such accidents, and they were sure that the reactors were completely safe.

There was complacency, ”Tkachuk believes.

He also said that immediately after the accident, foreign intelligence services, with the help of recruited citizens of the USSR, sought to obtain information about the events at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as well as about the methods of work of the Soviet civil defense, army, medicine and other services in an emergency, and much more.

According to Tkachuk, as the situation normalized at the station, personnel from foreign special services began to arrive there.

They positioned themselves as scientists and journalists, he said.

At the same time, Tkachuk believes that the relevant departments coped with their task and did not allow the penetration of unwanted elements to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

“We have not allowed information leaks.

But on the other hand, we have gained experience how in such extreme situations data can be obtained by third parties, and how to counteract this.

Although by that time the process of informing the international community had already been established, ”he said.