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Andre Bouville, Ph.D.

Chornobyl Research Unit

Location: 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS Room 7094
Phone: 301-594-7655
E-mail: bouvilla@mail.nih.gov

 Andre Bouville, Ph.D.

Biography

Born in France, Dr. Bouville obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse in 1970. He was Scientific Secretary of the United Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) from 1970 to 1972 and remained associated with that Committee as a consultant until 2000. From 1972 to 1984, Dr. Bouville was employed in France by the Institute of Protection and Nuclear Safety, where he contributed to a number of environmental and dosimetric studies related to nuclear facilities. He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1984, where, first as an Expert and then as a Senior Radiation Physicist, Dr. Bouville has been involved mainly in the estimation of radiation doses resulting from radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and from the Chornobyl accident.

Research Interests

Dr. Bouville is involved to a varying extent in all of the dosimetry activities in the Branch, which can be classified into five major categories:

  • Individual dose assessment of subjects enrolled in three Chornobyl-related epidemiologic studies: two related studies of thyroid disease among children (one in Belarus and the other in Ukraine), and one study of leukemia among Ukrainian clean-up workers.
  • Individual dose assessment for study subjects in an epidemiologic study of thyroid cancer and nodules in relation to radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
  • Studies related to the estimation of doses received by the U.S. population as a consequence of nuclear weapons testing in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world.
  • Other Branch research projects: a large cohort study of U.S. radiologic technologists who worked from the early 1920s until 1984, and the preparation of a REB-initiated monograph on dosimetric methods used in radioepidemiologic studies.
  • Service including mentoring, collaborations, participation as a committee member or expert in national and international organizations, and providing information and advice to professional and non-professional groups and individuals.

Keywords

Chornobyl, fallout, dose, Iodine-131

Selected Publications

  • Bouville A, Anspaugh L, Balonov MI, Gordeev KI, Kiselev VI, Loborev VM, Luckyanov NK, Pauli E, Robison WL, Savkin M, Sudakov VV, Zelentsov S. "Estimation of Doses," Ch. 6, pp.115-177 in: SCOPE 59 - Nuclear Test Explosions - Environmental and Human Impacts (eds. Sir Frederick Warner and René J.C. Kirchmann). John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2000.
  • Bouville A, Beck HL. "The HASL gummed-film network and its use in the reconstruction of doses resulting from nuclear weapons tests." Technology 2000;7(2-4):355-362.
  • Bennett B, Bouville A, Hall P, Savkin M, Storm H. "Chernobyl accident: exposures and effects." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper T-12-1. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Minenko V, Shemyakhina E, Tretyakevich S, Ulanovsky A, Shinkarev S, Gavrilin Y, Khrouch V, Bouville A, Voilleque P, Luckyanov N. "Chernobyl accident: revision of individual thyroid dose estimates for the children included in the cohort of the Belarusian-American study." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper T-12-2. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Chumak VV, Bouville A, Bakhanova EV, Krjuchkov VP, Sholom SV, Pasalskaya LF. "Retrospective dosimetry of Chernobyl liquidators." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper T-12-5. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Balonov MI, Bouville A. "Reconstruction of the internal dose in population from radioactive releases." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper T-19(2)-2. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Shinkarev S, Gavrilin Y, Khrouch V, Minenko V, Shemyakhina E, Tretyakevich S, Bouville A, Voilleque P, Luckyanov N. "Chernobyl accident: preliminary estimates of thyroid dose based on direct thyroid measurements conducted in Belarus." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper P-11-260. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Minenko V, Gavrilin Y, Shinkarev S, Khrouch V, Shemyakhina E, Drozdovitch V, Bouville A, Voilleque P, Luckyanov N. "Chernobyl accident: assessment of the collective thyroid dose for the Belarusian population." Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA-10). Paper P-11-263. Hiroshima, Japan; May 14-19; 2000.
  • Robbins J, Dunn JT, Bouville A, Kravchenko VI, Lubin J, Petrenko S, Sullivan KM, VanMiddlesworth L, Wolff J. "Iodine nutrition and the risk from radioactive iodine: a workshop report." Thyroid 2001;11(5)487-491.
  • Simon SL, Luckyanov N, Bouville A, VanMiddlesworth L, Weinstock RM. "Transfer of 131I into human breast milk and recommendations of transfer coefficient values useful for radiological dose assessments." Health Phys 2002; 82(6):796-804.
  • Simon SL, Bouville A, Beck HL, Anspaugh LR, Miller CW, Luckyanov N. "A summary of estimated doses to members of the public from atmospheric nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site." Proceedings of the International Conference on Radiation Legacy of the 20th Century: Environmental Restoration. IAEA 2002; in press.
  • Bouville A, Simon SL, Miller CW, Beck HL, Anspaugh LR, Bennett BG. "Estimates of doses from global fallout." Health Phys 2002;82(5):690-705.
  • Simon SL, Bouville A. "Radiation doses to local populations near nuclear weapons testing sites worldwide." Health Phys 2002; 82(5):706-725.
  • Simon SL, Gordeev K, Bouville A, Luckyanov N, Land C, Carr Z, Weinstock R, Anspaugh LR, Beck H, Romanyukha A. "Estimates of radiation doses to members of a cohort residing villages near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site." Workshop on dosimetry of the population living in the proximity of the Semipalatinsk atomic weapons test site, STUK-A187, 48-54 (Helsinki, STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority); 2002.
  • Carr ZA, Bouville A, Luckyanov N, Simon SL, Weinstock R, Gusev B, Hartshorne M, Crooks L, Land C. "Thyroid disease prevalence and fallout exposure In Kazakhstan." Workshop on dosimetry of the population living in the proximity of the Semipalatinsk atomic weapons test site, STUK-A187, 55-61 (Helsinki, STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority); 2002.
  • Gordeev K, Vasilenko I, Lebedev A, Bouville A, Luckyanov N, Simon SL, Stepanov Y, Shinkarev S, Anspaugh L. "Fallout from nuclear tests: dosimetry in Kazakhstan." Radiat Environ Biophys 2002; 41:61-67.
  • Khokhryakov VV, Drozhko EG, Glagolenko YV, Rovny SI, Vasilenko EK, Suslov A, Anspaugh LR, Napier BA, Bouville A, Khokhryakov VF, Suslova KG, Romanov SA. "Studies on the Ozyorsk population: dosimetry." Radiat Environ Biophys 2002; 41:33-35.