Azgirskiy area residents to get tested at chromosomal level
09:47, 8 October 2013
ATYRAU. October 8. KAZINFORM — Azgirskiy area residents of Atyrau region, where in the 70s nuclear tests were conducted, will be tested at the chromosomal level.
In the villages of Kurmangazy district, located on the territory of the former military training area, about a thousand people filled in questionnaires. One hundred people among the interviewed, who have passed medical and radiological examination in East Kazakhstan for presence of radionuclides in the blood and body secretions, were selected for testing at chromosomal level.
By the end of the current year there will be obtained and made public the results of the surveys which will determine what impact was made towards the population's health by the nuclear explosions.