Distribution of radiocesium in the soil-plant systems of upland areas of Europe.

abstract：:Human beings have always suffered and have incurred irreparable damages from different disasters. The most logical way to deal with disaster is to be comprehensively prepared. In line with this, the readiness of hospitals in the vicinity of nuclear centers is of great importance, as this could lead to reduced injuries...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ghaedi H,Nasiripour AA,Tabibi SJ,Assadi M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improved health effects models have been developed for assessing the early effects, late somatic effects and genetic effects that might result from low-LET radiation exposures to populations following a major accident in a nuclear power plant. All the models have been developed in such a way that the dynamics of popul...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Evans JS,Moeller DW

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes the current state of research on possible health effects of Wi-Fi (a commercial name for IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless networking). In response to public concerns about health effects of Wi-Fi and wireless networks and calls by government agencies for research on possible health and safety issu...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Foster KR,Moulder JE

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Program Area Committee 5 of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) focuses its activities on environmental radiation and radioactive waste issues. The Committee completed a number of reports in these subject areas, most recently NCRP Report No. 175, Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Chen SY,Napier B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The former Apollo facility converted enriched uranium hexafluoride into uranium oxide for shipment to nuclear fuel fabrication plants from 1957 to 1983. This paper describes quantification of the source term from the Apollo facility in terms of quantities of uranium released, particle size, and solubility characterist...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Caffrey EA,Voillequé PG,Rood AS,Grogan HA,Mohler HJ,Meyer KR,Till JE

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides a retrospective assessment of doses to 13 organs for the most common radiographic examinations conducted between the 1930s and 2010, taking into account typical technical parameters used for radiography during those years. This study is intended to be a resource on changes in medical diagnostic rad...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Melo DR,Miller DL,Chang L,Moroz B,Linet MS,Simon SL

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear weapons testing was conducted in the atmosphere at numerous sites worldwide between 1946 and 1980, which resulted in exposures to local populations as a consequence of fallout of radioactive debris. The nuclear tests were conducted by five nations (United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, and China...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Simon SL,Bouville A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to their high stability and accumulation over time, translocations are currently the cytogenetic marker of choice for radiation dose estimation following protracted radiation overexposures or overexposures that occurred up to several decades in the past (environmental/occupational/medical exposures). In the course...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Beinke C,Meineke V

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main factors that affect the uncertainty in calculating the gamma-radiation absorbed dose rate inside a room is the variation in the degree of secular equilibrium of the considered radioactive series. A component of this factor, considered in this paper, is the release of radon (Rn) from building materials ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Orabi M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the suitability of optically stimulated recombination luminescence in quartz for low-level dosimetry of recent events such as radiation accidents. Minimum detectable doses were determined for both fired and unfired quartz. Using a single aliquot technique, good detection of doses on the order of 0.01 Gy ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Godfrey-Smith DI,Haskell EH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparatively little research has been published on radioactive contamination from nuclear medicine patients using hospital toilet facilities. The present study was undertaken to obtain an estimate of the amount of restroom contamination found in a typical 700-bed community hospital as a result of nuclear medicine pro...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ho SY,Shearer DR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements have been made of surface deposition rates for 218Po radon decay products in a small (0.283m3) aluminum test chamber for 222Rn levels from 1 to 1,600 kBq m-3. an increase in macroscopic surface deposition rate has been found to be induced by the high 222Rn concentrations. A distinct 222Rn level threshold ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Leonard BE

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review/commentary addresses recent thermal and electromagnetic modeling studies that use image-based anthropomorphic human models to establish the local absorption of radiofrequency energy and the resulting increase in temperature in the body. The frequency range of present interest is from 100 MHz through the tr...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Foster KR,Ziskin MC,Balzano Q,Bit-Babik G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We collected bricks from buildings in the heavily contaminated evacuated area of Belarus in a 30-km zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station and the Gomel-Bryansk area of 150-250 km from Chernobyl and estimated the cumulative radiation dose caused by the reactor accident by measuring the thermoluminescence (TL)...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Sato H,Takatsuji T,Takada J,Endo S,Hoshi M,Sharifov VF,Veselkina II,Pilenko IV,Kalimullin WA,Masyakin VB,Yoshikawa I,Nagatomo T,Okajima S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive sources have been inadvertently incorporated into consignments of scrap metal in various locations throughout the world. In 1990, a 3.7 GBq 137 Cs source, due for transfer from a Scottish industrial establishment to one in England, was mistakenly included in a scrap consignment destined for Irish Steel, a ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： O'Grady JO,Hone C,Turvey FJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reconstruct reliable nuclear medicine-related occupational radiation doses or doses received as patients from radiopharmaceuticals over the last five decades, the authors assessed which radiopharmaceuticals were used in different time periods, their relative frequency of use, and typical values of the administered ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drozdovitch V,Brill AB,Callahan RJ,Clanton JA,DePietro A,Goldsmith SJ,Greenspan BS,Gross MD,Hays MT,Moore SC,Ponto JA,Shreeve WW,Melo DR,Linet MS,Simon SL

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation exposure of the biota in the shoreline area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Cooling Pond was assessed to evaluate radiological consequences from the decommissioning of the Cooling Pond. This paper addresses studies of radioactive contamination of the terrestrial faunal complex and radionuclide concentra...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Oskolkov BY,Bondarkov MD,Gaschak SP,Maksimenko AM,Hinton TG,Coughlin D,Jannik GT,Farfán EB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study three methods for the determination of the radon (222Rn) exhalation rate of building materials are compared. All three are so-called purge-and-trap methods in which the sample is enclosed in a container from which the exhaled radon is continuously purged by a constant flow of nitrogen gas. The outflowing...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： de Jong P,van Dijk W,de Vries W,van der Graaf ER,Roelofs LM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of uranium in water samples can be very helpful for providing guidelines to the general public regarding necessary remedial measures. A fission-track technique has been applied for the estimation of the uranium concentration in drinking water collected from natural springs of Muzaffarabad and hilly areas ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Akram M,Khattak NU,Qureshi AA,Iqbal A,Tufail M,Qureshi IE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discharges of radioactive materials from the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in the United Kingdom give rise to 137Cs and 134Cs in fish caught in the Irish Sea. Measurements made on fish catches landed in the Irish Republic show average activities of 68 and 3 Bq/kg (wet) of 137Cs and 134Cs, respectively....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： McAulay IR,Doyle C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides a review and reanalysis of data relating to gastrointestinal (GI) uptake of uranium in humans. Estimates of GI uptake of uranium in adult humans have been derived from results of three controlled experimental studies involving short-term oral intake of an elevated quantity of uranium in fluids, fro...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Leggett RW,Harrison JD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiopharmaceutical therapy involves the use of radionuclides that are either conjugated to tumor-targeting agents (e.g., nanoscale constructs, antibodies, peptides, and small molecules) or that concentrate in tumors through natural physiological mechanisms that occur predominantly in neoplastic cells. In the latter c...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Sgouros G

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal absorption of strontium from an oral test dose was studied in 13 healthy human volunteers using double tracer techniques with two stable strontium isotopes as tracers. Defined amounts of one isotope were administered orally, while tracer amounts of the second isotope were injected intravenously. Two differe...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Höllriegl V,Li WB,Oeh U,Roth P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor Rn concentrations and Rn in adjacent karst terrains were studied at four houses with crawlspaces in Huntsville, AL. In warm summertime weather, Rn-rich air may vent through limestone solution cavities exposed as holes at the surface of the properties. A probable interrelated-finding is that the indoor levels of...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Wilson DL,Gammage RB,Dudney CS,Saultz RJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the release of radioactive materials from a large radiological dispersal device (e.g., dirty bomb), improvised nuclear detonation, or nuclear power plant accident, up to hundreds of square miles may be contaminated. A portion of this area will be evacuated; however, people living in the portion that is not evacu...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Snyder E,Drake J,Cardarelli J,Hall K,Szabo J,Demmer R,Lindberg M,Riggs K,James R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immersion doses from external exposure to a Gaussian plume of noble gases accidentally released into the atmosphere have been calculated. A numerical integration procedure employing Gauss-Legendre of 64th order has been used. The numerical procedure allows calculating the dose rate at any downwind horizontal or ve...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Raza S,Avila R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering that in 1899 neither biotechnology nor the electronic revolution were foreseen, some humility might be advisable when one looks into the crystal ball for the future role of radiation sources. In the past 50 years, nuclear medicine, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power have had a huge impact in the world. In ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Blix H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of environmental radiation in the etiology of birth defects, stillbirths, and other adverse outcomes of pregnancy was evaluated for 13,329 Navajos born at the Public Health Service/Indian Health Service Hospital in the Shiprock, NM, uranium mining area (1964-1981). More than 320 kinds of defective congenital ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Shields LM,Wiese WH,Skipper BJ,Charley B,Benally L

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this research were (1) to analyze the transfers of 137Cs and 60Co in a retention pond, with emphasis on aquatic insects and (2) to determine if detectable concentrations of these radionuclides are exported by emerging aquatic insects. We analyzed the radionuclide concentrations in the following compo...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Voshell JR Jr,Eldridge JS,Oakes TW

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guidelines for occupational exposure to radiation are based on annual absorbed or effective dose. Guidelines for Rn exposure are currently based on air concentrations of Rn or decay products. Models of bronchial dose from decay product exposure are based on calculations that have five major parameters with parameter v...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Harley NH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00