Geographical distribution of radiation risks in The Netherlands.

abstract：:As a continuation of previous research on worst case transportation accidents involving radioactive material (Dodd and Humphries 1988a), and protective action guidance for radioactive material transportation accidents (Dodd and Humphries 1988b), this paper describes the risks from such accidents in Oregon. Radioactive...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Humphries LL,Dodd B

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The materials cycle for (137)Cs, a low-level radioactive material of interest from a security perspective (as a possible source for "dirty bombs") as well as for its extensive industrial and medical uses, has been characterized for the United States for the year 2000. The focus is on products utilizing the isotope rat...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Okumura T,Graedel TE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of thyroid cancer was carried out in contaminated regions of Belarus and Russia among persons who were exposed during childhood and adolescence to fallout from the Chernobyl accident. For each study subject, individual thyroid doses were reconstructed for the following pathways of...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Drozdovitch V,Khrouch V,Maceika E,Zvonova I,Vlasov O,Bratilova A,Gavrilin Y,Goulko G,Hoshi M,Kesminiene A,Shinkarev S,Tenet V,Cardis E,Bouville A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial nuclear power plants release gaseous and liquid radiological effluents into the environment as by-products of electrical generation. In the U.S. these releases are monitored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S. NRC) and Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). Traditionally these releases have alwa...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Harris JT,Miller DW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken to determine the natural radioactivity present in some building materials in Nigeria using a gamma-ray spectrometer with a hyper pure germanium detector. A total of 118 samples of commonly used building materials were collected from manufacturers and suppliers of ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Ademola JA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of high background radiation (HBR) on mortality. A cohort of 31,604 men and women aged 30-74 y living in the study area in Guangdong Province, China, was followed during the period 1979-1998. The information on deaths and migrations of cohort members was collected by vis...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Tao Z,Akiba S,Zha Y,Sun Q,Zou J,Li J,Liu Y,Yuan Y,Tokonami S,Morishoma H,Koga T,Nakamura S,Sugahara T,Wei L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uranium industry in the American Southwest has had profoundly negative impacts on American Indian communities. Navajo workers experienced significant health problems, including lung cancer and nonmalignant respiratory diseases, and psychosocial problems, such as depression and anxiety. There were four uranium proc...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Dawson SE,Madsen GE

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for medical x-ray procedures are being implemented currently in the Netherlands. By order of the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, a survey has been conducted among 20 Dutch hospitals to investigate the level of implementation of the Dutch DRLs in current radiological practice. It turns...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Bijwaard H,Valk D,de Waard-Schalkx I

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-pressure ion chamber filled with 2.5825 X 10(5) kg m-2 argon as used to measure the dose rates of several sites of interest in an attempt to evaluate the dose rates contributed by cosmic rays. Observation sites included two water reservoirs deeper than 110 m, Mount Ali which is higher than 2500 m, airliners fly...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Weng PS,Chen CF

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The International Commission on Radiological Protection system of radiological protection is based on three pillars: science, ethical and social values, and experience. As far as ethics and the protection of humans are concerned, the system combines the values of beneficence/non-maleficence, prudence, justice, and dig...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Lochard J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies performed decades ago in the canine and nonhuman primate established the dose response relationships for the hematopoietic acute radiation syndrome in response to mixed neutron/gamma, x-radiation, and Co gamma radiation. There were no published studies that determined the dose response relationships for the ga...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： MacVittie TJ,Jackson W 3rd

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents an optimization study for radiological protection in a U mine. The mathematical model of the alpha contamination associated with short-lived Rn daughters allows the comparison of various protection strategies through a cost-effectiveness analysis. Determining the optimal protection strategy is ca...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Lombard J,Oudiz A,Zettwoog P

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While much of the language used to express the concepts of radiation protection works effectively, there are many ill-chosen names and phrases and much jargon that permeate our professional speech and writing. From the oxymoron "internal exposure" to the "snarl word" "decay," there is much room for improvement. This e...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Strom DJ,Watson CR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven years after the accidental loss of nuclear weapons in 1968, the fourth scientific expedition to Thule occurred. The estimated inventory of 1 TBq 239,240Pu in the marine sediments was unchanged when compared with the estimate based on the 1974 data. Plutonium from the accident had moved further away from the imp...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Aarkrog A,Dahlgaard H,Nilsson K,Holm E

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accidents or radiological attacks may lead to ingestion of Cs by large numbers of the public. This work models the efficacy of Prussian blue, the medical countermeasure for internal contamination with Cs, to prevent acute radiation syndrome as a function of the duration of treatment and the time that treatment starts ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Adams TG,Casagrande R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If a large radioactive cloud is produced, sampling may require that an airplane traverse the cloud. A method to predict the absorbed dose to the aircrew from penetrating the radioactive cloud is needed. Dose rates throughout spherically symmetric Gaussian clouds of various sizes, and the absorbed doses from traversing...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Thompson JM,Poston JW Sr

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model describing the dynamics of lymphopoiesis in mammals continuously exposed to ionizing radiation has been developed. It is based on the theory of chalone regulation of hematopoiesis. The model comprises a system of nine differential equations. Results from the model were compared with our experiment...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Zukhbaya TM,Smirnova OA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was motivated by the efforts to evaluate radiation risk for leukemia incidence in the Techa River cohort, where the main bone marrow dose contributors were Sr (bone-seeking beta emitters). Energy deposition in bone marrow targets was evaluated by simulating radiation particle transport using computational p...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Shishkina EA,Timofeev YS,Volchkova AY,Sharagin PA,Zalyapin VI,Degteva MO,Smith MA,Napier BA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brookhaven National Laboratory Sigma Pile is a radium-beryllium neutron source imbedded in a cube of graphite blocks. The pile is approximately 2.13 m on four sides and is 3.07 m high. Thermoluminescent dosimeters were used to determine the neutron and gamma-ray dose rates in the pile. Gamma-ray dose rate measurem...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Holden NE,Reciniello RN,Hu JP

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor 222Rn in high-rise buildings originates inside the building materials, then diffuses gradually through the intergranular spaces of the material into the room atmosphere. Therefore, the radionuclide contents and the physical properties of the building materials are important for indoor 222Rn levels in Hong Kong....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Tso MY,Ng CY,Leung JK

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this statement, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) presents its principles for protection against adverse health effects from exposure to non-ionizing radiation. These are based upon the principles for protection against ionizing radiation of the International Commission for ...

journal_title：Health physics

authors：

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis and evaluation of 241Am in the whole body of a donor to the U.S. Transuranium Registry (USTR) is presented in five parts. The USTR donor's pertinent medical history, autopsy findings and antemortem evaluations of intake and systemic burden are described in Parts I and II. The donor was a 49-yr-old male Cau...

journal_title：Health physics

authors：

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-luminous signs are generally licensed consumer products used to identifying exits, handicap accessibility areas, parking lots, no smoking areas, life boat locations, and emergency stair locations. While purchasers of these signs are exempt from the requirement of applying for a specific license, they are not exem...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Linsley ME

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 29 December 1970, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). This article on OSHA, Title 29, Part 1910.1096 Ionizing Radiation standard was written to increase awareness of the employer, the workforce, state and federal governments, and those...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Lewis RK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Instrumentation and application methodologies for rapidly and accurately estimating individual ionizing radiation dose are needed for on-site triage in a radiological/nuclear event. One such methodology is an in vivo X-band, electron paramagnetic resonance, physically based dosimetry method to directly measure the rad...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Swarts SG,Sidabras JW,Grinberg O,Tipikin DS,Kmiec MM,Petryakov SV,Schreiber W,Wood VA,Williams BB,Flood AB,Swartz HM

更新日期：2018-07-01 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 intestinal absorption of 99mTc given as pertechnetate (TcO4-) was studied in female goats and swine. In goats given TcO4- orally, only a small fraction of the given radioactivity was found in milk (x = 0.1% of dose) and urine (x = 1.2% of dose). These figures were not substantially changed by pre-treatment with I....

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Jones BE

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nuclear accident consequence assessment, dose contributions from radionuclide deposition on the human body have in the past generally been either ignored or estimated on the basis of rather simple models. Recent experimental work has improved the state of knowledge of relevant processes and parameter ranges. The re...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Andersson KG,Fogh CL,Byrne MA,Roed J,Goddard AJ,Hotchkiss SA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small plastic chambers containing alpha track detectors are often used for measuring indoor concentrations of 222Rn. This paper reports an experimental assessment of sources of error in measurements made with alpha track detector-containing chambers. The results demonstrate the feasibility of a nondestructive test for...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Dudney CS,Wilson DL,Bertini H,Gammage RB,Otten JA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voxelized geometry such as those obtained from medical images is increasingly used in Monte Carlo calculations of absorbed doses. One useful application of calculated absorbed dose is the determination of fluence-to-dose conversion factors for different organs. However, confusion still exists about how such a geometry...

journal_title：Health physics

authors： Zhang J,Bednarz B,Xu XG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00