CONCLUSION
The present paper focused on the effects of radiation
exposure through the aspects of health effects and mental
problems. First, we pointed out that 33% of respondents
(198 persons) answered that they suffered bad or very bad
health. Second, we showed that approximately 70% of the
residents (424 persons) strongly recognize a causal relationship
between their bad health condition and the nuclear tests.
Third, we pointed out that over 30% of respondents possessed
arthritis, high-blood pressure, heart disease and
digestive system disease. We also pointed out that the residents
in Semipalatinsk have many symptoms in the same
way and to the same degree as Hibakusha in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Next, we showed that the residents experienced
some acute radiation injuries such as headaches, general
malaise and nausea and lacked appetite from 1949 to 1989,
and that the residents near the SNTS suffered from acute
radiation injury in the same way as Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hibakusha. Furthermore, we showed that 22% of respondents
(134 residents) were frustrated/ agitated, 21% (125
residents) experienced nightmare and 13% (81 persons) felt
depressed. We pointed out that both the residents near the
SNTS and the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Hibakusha were troubled
by nightmare and easily frustrated and agitated.