Published July 1984
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Journal article
Radiation exposure of the public in west Cumbria due to discharges from BNFL, Sellafield
Description
A summary is given of a NRPB report which has used published information on environmental measurements and on discharges to sea and atmosphere from the Sellafield site to estimate present and past annual average committed effective dose equivalents to members of the public in West Cumbria from the known exposure pathways. On the basis of the available evidence, it appears that the largest doses to members of the public in any one year were as a result of the Windscale reactor fire in 1957. (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Radiol. Prot. Bull.
- Journal Issue
- no.59) Suppl
- Series
- Radiol. Prot. Bull.
- ISSN
- 0308-4272
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 16013929
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BNFL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; HUMAN POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOACTIVE EFFLUENTS; SELLAFIELD REPROCESSING PLANT
- Descriptors DEC
- FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POPULATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNITED KINGDOM ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES