PROBLEM ON ESTIMATION OF THE CONTENT
OF 131I IN MILK IN THE "IODINE" PERIOD
OF THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT

A. A. Khrushchinskii,a S. A. Kuten',a N. M. Budevich,a 
V. F. Minenko,b O. M. Zhukova,c and N. K. Luk'yanovd

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Measurements of the beta-activity of milk, serving as the main source 
of information on the radioactive contamination of the environment by 
the iodine isotope 131I, carried out on a DP-100 radiometer in the early 
post-Chernobyl period (1986) in Belarus, have been mathematically 
simulated. The results obtained allow the conclusion that the indicated 
measurements should be analyzed again with consideration for all of the 
nuclides present in milk.

aScientific-Research Institute of Nuclear Problems, 
Belarusian State University, 11 Bobruiskaya Str., Minsk, 220050, 
Belarus; email: kut@inp.minsk.by; bBelarusian Academy 
of Post-Graduate Education, Minsk, Belarus; cRepublican 
Center of Radiation Control and Environment Monitoring, Minsk, 
Belarus; dNational Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD USA. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 6, 
pp. 102-108, November-December, 2007. Original article submitted 
August 7, 2006; revision submitted November 1, 2006.