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The 64th session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) take place at the Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria, from 29 May to 2 June 2017.
The Republic of Belarus is represented by Stozharov Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Nikolaenko E.V., Ternov V.I.
The Committee discussed matters arising from General Assembly resolution 71/89 including its future programme of work. The Committee held technical discussions on six documents prepared by the secretariat:
- quality criteria for the Committee's reviews of epidemiological studies;
- epidemiological studies of cancer risk due to low dose-rate radiation from environmental sources, including the scientific view of the Committee on the dose and dose rate effectiveness factor;
- selected evaluations of health effects and of risk inference due to radiation exposure;
- developments since the 2013 UNSCEAR Report on the levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident following the great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami: review of 2016 scientific literature, including an evaluation of thyroid cancer data in regions affected by the Chernobyl accident;
- exposures of patients to ionizing radiation;
- exposures of workers to ionizing radiation.
Furthermore, the Committee considered progress reports on the following topics:
- lung cancer from exposure to radon and to penetrating radiation;
- biological mechanisms influencing health effects from low-dose radiation exposure;
- collection, analysis and dissemination of data on radiation exposures, in particular of the public from natural and artificial sources;
- implementation of the Public Information and Outreach Strategy (2014-2019).
