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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2008 Dec;170(6):698–710. doi: 10.1667/RR1403.1

TABLE 2.

Structure of the Liquidator Population in the Study and Reconstruction of the Structure of Whole Liquidator Population in Ukraine

Study population
(whole cohort)
City of Kyiv and Kyiv oblast
Other four oblasts
Estimated
percentages for
the liquidator
population
from Ukraine
Category Number
(%)
Median duration
of work, days
(min, max)
Number
(%)
Median duration
of work, days
(min, max)
Number
(%)
Median duration
of work, days
(min, max)
Witnesses of the accident 3 (0.5) 7 (1, 11) 2 (0.7) 6 (1, 11) 1 (0.4) 7 (7, 7) <1
Victims of the accident 2 (0.3) 2 (1, 2) 2 (0.7) 2 (1, 2) 0 (0.0) — (–, –) <1
Early liquidators 66 (11.5) 7 (1, 185) 50 (17.1) 7 (1, 185) 16 (5.7) 7 (3, 16) ~10
ChNPP personnel 9 (1.6) 317 (36, 1420) 8 (2.7) 379 (36, 1420) 1 (0.4) 225 (225, 225) ~1
Sent to assist the ChNPP staff 1 (0.2) 31 (31, 31) 1 (0.3) 31 (31, 31) 0 (0.0) — (–, –) <1
Staff of AC-605 5 (0.9) 31 (19, 63) 1 (0.3) 24 (24, 24) 4 (1.4) 46 (19, 63) ~1
Staff of Kurchatov Institute 2 (0.3) 157 (138, 175) 0 (0.0) — (–, –) 2 (0.7) 157 (138, 175) <1
Military liquidators 220 (38.6) 67 (6, 833) 33 (11.3) 65 (7, 366) 187 (66.7) 69 (6, 833) 48
Civilians Sent on Mission (CSOM) to the 30-km zone 181 (31.6) 19 (1, 1710) 121 (41.5) 18 (1, 1710) 60 (21.5) 21 (2, 103) 28
Staff of Combinat 4 (0.7) 458 (164, 1450) 4 (1.4) 458 (164, 1450) 0 (0.0) — (–, –) <1
Mixed 79 (13.8) 250 (4, 1710) 70 (24.0) 258 (4, 1710) 9 (3.2) 111 (9, 1710) 10
All 572 292 280