HOW MANY PROJECTS DOES DOE SPONSOR THROUGH THIS PROGRAM?
DOE currently sponsors five projects. Of these, four core projects focus on the epidemiology and dosimetry of the Techa River population and the Mayak workers:
- Project 1.1: Techa River Population Dosimetry;
- Project 1.2b: Techa River Population Cancer Morbidity and Mortality;
- Project 2.2: Mayak Worker Cancer Mortality; and
- Project 2.4: Mayak Worker Dosimetry.
The other project is:
Two studies completed in Fiscal Year 2005 focused on data preservation and retrieval:
- Project 1.2a: Physical preservation of data related to the Techa River population at URCRM; and
- Project 2.9: Database Integration.
Two studies completed in Fiscal Year 2008 focused on molecular epidemiology and radiation biomarkers:
- Project 2.6: Molecular Markers of Lung Cancer in Mayak Workers; and
- Project 2.7: Biomarkers of Radiation Exposure
In FY 2010, Project 2.5, Improved Plutonium Dose Assessment Methods for Mayak Workers, was merged into Project 2.4, Mayak Worker Dosimetry.
In FY 2013, Project 1.4, Ozersk Population Dose Reconstruction from Mayak Operations, was completed.
A twelfth study, metabolism and dosimetry of plutonium industrial compounds (Project 2.1), was the first collaborative dosimetry project between the two countries.
A thirteenth study, deterministic effects in Mayak workers (Project 2.3), was sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It was designed to validate current dose-response models for acute exposure and develop new dose-response models for chronic internal and external exposure to ionizing radiation.
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