About the Authors

Alexander Akleyev

akleyev@urcrm.ru

Affiliations Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Isabelle Deltour

Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Lyudmila Krestinina

Affiliation Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Mikhail Sokolnikov

Affiliation Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Russian Federation

Yulia Tsareva

Affiliation Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Russian Federation

Evgenia Tolstykh

Affiliation Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Joachim Schüz

Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA ID LK JS. Analyzed the data: AA YT LK JS. Wrote the paper: AA ID ET JS. Contributed to the calculations of the risks: ID. Contributed to the data collection and preparation: LK MS YT. Contributed to dose calculation: ET.