European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The chernobyl aftermath authorities keep lists of evacuees by Felicity Barringer new York times in Kiev the capital of the Ukraine and else wherein administrative centers of thai soviet Republican neighbouring byelorussian the chernobyl nuclear disaster is leaving a legacy of months the authorities have been compiling lists of evacuees these Are mainly in the custody of an investigative and administrative commissions formed in Kiev but that is just the beginning. With t35.000 evacuees a recent Issue of the ukrainian Community party newspaper pravda Ukraine indicated that there were lists of War veterans and lists of pensioners lists of those allowed to visit their evacuated Homes each family can Send one person to visit their Home once and lists of those eligible for compensation a family of five would receive 8,000 rubles Lor its Home or about $11.200 at the official Exchange Rale and 11.500 rubles for other properly. The local courts have lists of looters although thankfully these Are Ukraine pravda reported. They were just looking Lor two mothers referring to Home made ukrainian Vodka told a court that was trying their sons. But the court had Little inclination to distinguish Between those entering evacuated Homes in search of drink and those seeking to profit when people beset by misfortune abandon their Homes the newspaper said. All the lists Are a natural development As crisis work gives Way to tasks requiring Long term organization and planning. The longest of the lists will be kept by the largest of the new bureaucracies formed As a result of the nuclear Plant disaster the new Institute Lor radiation Medicine. Its sole research subjects will be the 200.000 people exposed to radiation after the Accident on april 26. The radiation leak has already killed 31 people. Anatoly y. Romanenko. Minister of health in the Ukraine is widely expected to be the director of the new Institute. He said its main task will be to compile and update a computerized health registry of the 90,000 ukrainians 45.000 byelorussian and the thousands of cleanup workers exposed to radiation. The Institute will be the focal Point of a decades Long study of How this radiation exposure relates to the development of benign and malignant tutors or to the mutation of human cells. Romanenko said. He said the entire population of the 11 mile radius evacuation zone around the Plant had health checks in the Early Days after the april 26 Accident with estimates made of How much radiation they had been exposed to. Ii averaged out Over a year he said people affected received from 1 one Hundredth of a Rem to in a Lew cases 100 apartments for every 120 families. Although the communist party has made housing a top priority and has set a goal of 300.000 new apartments a year by 1990, critics think economic troubles will slow the rate. And so one 40-year-old Warsaw woman had to spend three years with her sex husband and their 7-year old daughter in a two room apartment. In their Case she won custody of the child and the bigger room which was 16 Square meters 160 Square feet. I suffered a nervous breakdown at the the woman said. All i could think about was How to get another the woman eventually found an apartment for her sex husband bought it for him and moved him out. If i did to i d still be living with him she said. The Story of one elderly Warsaw couple had a different ending. Divorced after 25 years of marriage they lived together in their old apartment for another 20 years apparently with some Success. They remarried live years ago and last year celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Persons affected by the chernobyl nuclear disaster line up to be added to a list for health Check ups. 50 one hundredths of a Rem to did not say How much radiation people had been exposed to in the two Days before the evacuation arguing that the annualized figures better indicated the Overall affect of different isotopes. Health experts note however that the effect of a dose of radiation Given in Rem depends upon the Speed of delivery for example a dose of 600 Rem which would be lethal if received All at once might cause no noticeable effect if received Over a year. For the next four or live decades. Romanenko said every person in the new Center s Register will have annual medical workup including blood tests and the data will be sent to the Center children will be examined several limes a year and pregnant women every month adult agricultural workers in areas affected by the fallout will have two examinations a year. The Institute will be stalled by younger scientists who will win their positions in a Competition As Well As by older established experts in genetics and oncology. We just want to Tell Mankind what should be done about radiation exposure what Are permissible doses and what Are harmful Romanenko said he said the results of the Center s work would be regularly passed on to International health associations but there is another bureaucracy less research oriented and More result oriented working in area of Rad Ilion exposure the medical service that according to Romanenko is monitoring the scores of who Are doing cleanup chores in the contaminated Rones any worker in the zone has his own dosimeter which accumulates radiation he said As soon a. It reaches the permissible level of 25 Rem he is taken out of the area " Kiev residents themselves have a More informal Way of evaluating the effect of whatever Small doses of radiation they May have accumulated in the last Lour months look at me a school teacher said i be been Here All summer Long do i look sick to you housing shortage in Poland la aggravated by Maze of regulations to apportion space. Is photo by Peter Jaeger sunday september 14,1986 the stars and stripes Page 17
