Abstract
There are several methods of Retrospective Dosimetry (RD), which is being applied in order to support radiation epidemiological studies among population in the vicinity of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (SNTS). These methods are the following: Modeling Calculations (MC), which are being used with different radioecological models, based on archive data and on the results of contemporary measurements of radioactive contamination of the soils and foods; Luminescence Retrospective Dosimetry (LRD) with quartz inclusions in the bricks of the buildings; EPR Dosimetry with human tooth enamel; Biological Dosimetry (BD) methods (chromosome aberrations etc). Practically all of these methods were recently presented and discussed on 3rd Dosimetry Workshop on the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Area (10th Hiroshima International Symposium 9-11 of March 2005 RIRBM, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan). An overview of recent results of dose estimations by different Retrospective Dosimetry methods (Calculations and physical methods – LRD and EPR) is presented below. In order to provide the possibility to compare the dose estimations by different methods, the only results of dose reconstruction, which are related to the populations of the same village (the village of Dolon, Kazakhstan – the most radiation affected settlement), were considered.
