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Under radionuclide contamination of aquatic ecosystems, hydrobionts of different taxa reveal responses induced by chronic external and internal irradiation. The definitions of such responses to irradiation as sensitivity, stimulation, and damage are given. The leveling of the concepts of radiosensitivity and radiation damage and the absence of integral comparative analysis of the development of closely interrelated reactions of biotic components of different hierarchical levels until recently remained an obstacle for further research and knowledge of super sophisticated and multistage processes of damage and restoration of irradiated biosystems.