Assessment of potential doses at the Maralinga and Emu test sites
Creators
- 1. National Radiological Protection Board, Chilton (United Kingdom)
Description
An assessment has been undertaken of potential doses to future aboriginal inhabitants of the Maralinga and Emu areas of South Australia, where nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s have resulted in residual radioactive contamination. Radioactive material due to this programme of tests and other experiments is still detectable several tens of kilometres from some of the test sites, and continued occupancy by individuals following and Aboriginal lifestyle could give rise to annual effective dose equivalents of several millisieverts within contours enclosing areas of several hundred square kilometres. The most significant dose pathways are calculated to be the inhalation of resuspended activity and ingestion of soil by infants. An analysis of the effects of uncertainties in the dose calculation has indicated the uncertainty distribution on predicted doses from the inhalation pathway. (author). 15 refs, 3 figs, 5 tabs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Assessing the radiological impact of past nuclear activities and events. Part of the IAEA/CEC co-ordinated research programme on the validation of environmental model predictions (VAMP)
- Imprint Pagination
- 137 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 51-60.
- ISSN
- 1011-4289
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--755
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 26033003
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- ADULTS; CHILDREN; DOSE EQUIVALENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; EVALUATED DATA; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HUMAN POPULATIONS; INGESTION; INHALATION; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIATION DOSES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DATA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EXPLOSIONS; INFORMATION; INTAKE; MAMMALS; MAN; NUMERICAL DATA; POPULATIONS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES