Childhood leukaemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Hodgkin diseases in Eastern Romania between 1980 and 1994

The radiation exposure of children during the first 3 years following the Chernobyl accident (May 1986 - April 1989) was expressed in terms of effective dose, the dosimetric quantity recommended by I.C.R.P. in Publication 60. The effective doses resulted from internal radiation by ingestion of contaminated food were estimated from the radioactive content of foodstuffs (134 - Cs, 137 - Cs determined by high-resolution gammaspectrometric techniques and 90 - Sr by a sensitive radiochemical methods). The average annual food consumption and the corresponding I.C.R.P. dose factors. 15 refs, 3 figs, 8 tabs