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Effective doses committed in Bucharest area due to Cs-137 and Sr-90 intake 9 years after the Chernobyl accident

  • 1. Inst. of Hygiene and Public Health, 1-3 Dr. Leonte St., 76256 Bucharest (Romania)
  • 2. Inspectorate of Sanitary Police and Preventive Medicine, Bucharest (Romania)
  • 3. Technical Division, Rosu Water Mill, Bucharest-Rosu (Romania)

Description

On the 26th of April, 1986, a major accident occurred at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Ukraine. The meteorological conditions lead to important fallout over our country. The most important radionuclides carried by the radioactive plume over Romania were I131, Cs134, Cs131 and Sr90. After the decay of I131, and of the other short-lived radionuclides, Cs137 and Sr90 remained the most important contaminants on the Romanian territory. The principal route of intake for these two radionuclides is considered to be the ingestion of contaminated foods. Therefore, we have measured Cs137 and Sr90 content in dietary intake for a group of adult subjects. The data for dietary intake were used to determine the effective doses committed annually, with the dose factors recommended by ICRP 67. (author)

Part of:
IRPA9: 1996 international congress on radiation protection. Proceedings. Volume 2

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Berger.
Imprint Place
Horn (Austria)
ISBN
3-9500255-4-5
Imprint Title
IRPA9: 1996 international congress on radiation protection. Proceedings. Volume 2
Imprint Pagination
817 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 476-478.

Conference

Title
9. international congress of the International Radiation Protection Association.
Dates
14-19 Apr 1996.
Place
Vienna (Austria).

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