Daily radionuclide ingestion and internal radiation doses in Aomori prefecture, Japan.

Abstract:

:To assess internal annual dose in the general public in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, 80 duplicate cooked diet samples, equivalent to the food consumed over a 400-d period by one person, were collected from 100 volunteers in Aomori City and the village of Rokkasho during 2006–2010 and were analyzed for 11 radionuclides. To obtain average rates of ingestion of radionuclides, the volunteers were selected from among office, fisheries, agricultural, and livestock farm workers. Committed effective doses from ingestion of the diet over a 1-y period were calculated from the analytical results and from International Commission on Radiological Protection dose coefficients; for 40K, an internal effective dose rate from the literature was used. Fisheries workers had significantly higher combined internal annual dose than the other workers, possibly because of high rates of ingestion of marine products known to have high 210Po concentrations. The average internal dose rate, weighted by the numbers of households in each worker group in Aomori Prefecture, was estimated at 0.47 mSv y-1. Polonium-210 contributed 49% of this value. The sum of committed effective dose rates for 210Po, 210Pb, 228Ra, and 14C and the effective dose rate of 40K accounted for approximately 99% of the average internal dose rate.

journal_name

Health Phys

journal_title

Health physics

authors

Ohtsuka Y,Kakiuchi H,Akata N,Takaku Y,Hisamatsu S

doi

10.1097/HP.0b013e31829ae95f

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-10-01 00:00:00

pages

340-50

issue

4

eissn

0017-9078

issn

1538-5159

pii

00004032-201310000-00005

journal_volume

105

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