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IJE Advance Access published online on June 3, 2009
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyp216
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Cohort Profile: The German uranium miners cohort study (WISMUT cohort), 1946–2003

Michaela Kreuzer*, Maria Schnelzer, Annemarie Tschense, Linda Walsh and Bernd Grosche

Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Department of Radiation Protection and Health, Neuherberg, Germany

*Corresponding author. Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Department of Radiation Protection and Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg, Germany. E-mail: mkreuzer@bfs.de

Accepted 22 April 2009

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   How did the study come about?
 
Silver mining has been in existence since the 12th century in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) located in the South of Eastern Germany in the Federal State of Saxony close to the border of the Czech Republic. In 1946, after World War II, the old silver mines were re-opened and the Soviet-Stock Corporation was founded with the code name WISMUT (i.e. the German name for bismuth).1 The aim of this corporation was to produce as much uranium as possible for the Soviet nuclear weapon program. In the early years, from 1946 to about 1955, a large number of workers had been employed (about 100 000) under extremely bad working conditions. No worker-protection or radiation safety measures existed; consequently, exposures to radiation and dust were very high due to a lack of forced ventilation and the use of dry drilling. In 1954, the corporation was converted into the Soviet–German Stock Corporation. At . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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   What has already been found?
 

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