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Residents’ attitude of the Leningrad Region and Cosnovy Bor to environmental situation and issues of radiation safety in the residence places

https://doi.org/10.35627/2219-5238/2019-316-7-17-22

Abstract

A sociological survey was conducted in the Leningrad Region in 2016. In total, 1,363 respondents over 18 years of age were interviewed, including 401 respondents residing in the area of the main nuclear industry facility in the region namely the Leningrad nuclear power plant in the urban district Sosnovy Bor. The aim of the study was to investigate the interest of the population of the Leningrad Region and Sosnovy Bor in obtaining information on various aspects of radiation safety, depending on the gender and age of respondents, perception of the environmental situation in the region of their residence, as well as the confidence level in various sources of information. Respondents ' interest study of information about radiation and radiation safety issues was revealed that interest to such information is twice higher in Sosnovy Bor than the respondents of the Leningrad region have one. The highest level of confidence among all in the study participating respondents is the information, where Emergency Situations Ministry officers, scientists and specialists are the source one.

About the Authors

S. A. Zelentsova
Professor P.V. Ramzaev Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor
Russian Federation


G. V. Arkhangelskaya
Professor P.V. Ramzaev Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor
Russian Federation


E. V. Khramtsov
Professor P.V. Ramzaev Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor
Russian Federation


A. M. Biblin
Professor P.V. Ramzaev Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor
Russian Federation


R. R. Akhmatdinov
Professor P.V. Ramzaev Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor
Russian Federation


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Zelentsova S.A., Arkhangelskaya G.V., Khramtsov E.V., Biblin A.M., Akhmatdinov R.R. Residents’ attitude of the Leningrad Region and Cosnovy Bor to environmental situation and issues of radiation safety in the residence places. Public Health and Life Environment – PH&LE. 2019;(7):17-22. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35627/2219-5238/2019-316-7-17-22

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