Finally, the information collected during interviews allowed us to estimate the effects of a number of potential confounders not generally available in other studies of cleanup workers (Ivanov 2007).
In November a 20-year study of Chernobyl cleanup workers revealed that 137 of 110,645 Ukrainian workers examined had leukemia, with 16% of these cases related to low-level radiation fallout from the 1986 accident.
Increased risks of leukemia, although not statistically significant, were also reported from a study of Chornobyl cleanup workers from Belarus, Russia, and Baltic countries (Kesminiene et al. 2008).
Based on the results from a study of Ukrainian cleanup workers, 15 we expected higher rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and headaches.
MSI has not been observed in the survivors of the atomic bombings (Kodaira et al. 1995), in studies of Chernobyl cleanup workers (Livshits et al. 2001), or in radiotherapy patients (May et al. 2000).
In particular, indications for increased risks of CLL from radiation exposure have come from incidence studies of Chornobyl cleanup workers from Belarus, Russia, and Baltic countries (Kesminiene et al. 2008), and from uranium miners with exposures to alpha particles and gamma radiation in Canada, Germany, and Czechoslovakia (Lane et al. 2010; Mohner et al. 2010; Rericha et al. 2006).
This year, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences announced the beginning of a 10-year study of the health of cleanup workers and volunteers that according to the review was not financed until six months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Originally, the rider would have halted planning and cleanup activities on Superfund sites that involved contaminated sediments in river bottoms and sea beds until a National Academy of Science study on the effectiveness of cleanup technologies.
In Washington, the Model Toxics Control Act requires the reporting, study, and cleanup of sites where hazardous substances are above state-set cleanup levels.
Once those studies are complete, G.E. will propose a number of cleanup options for the rest of the river, including leaving the PCB's in place.
