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Winkler, B.C.
Abstracts of the regional conference on radiation protection March 5-8, 1973, Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Israel1973
Abstracts of the regional conference on radiation protection March 5-8, 1973, Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, Israel1973
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Israel Health Physics Society; Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Tel Aviv; p. 51; Mar 1973; Regional conference on radiation protection; Jerusalem, Israel; 5 Mar 1973
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[en] Atmospheric ethylene from polyethylene manufacturing plants adversely affected the number of flowers and growth of field-grown marigold and petunia. - Data of a multi-year (1977-1983) biomonitoring programme with marigold and petunia around polyethylene manufacturing plants was analysed to assess plant responses to atmospheric ethylene and to determine the area at risk for the phytotoxic effects of this pollutant. In both species, flower formation and growth were severely reduced close to the emission sources and plant performance improved with increasing distance. Plants exposed near the border of the research area had more flowers than the unexposed control while their growth was normal. Measurements of ethylene concentrations at a border site revealed that the growing season mean was 61.5 μg m-3 in 1982 and 15.6 μg m-3 in 1983. In terms of number of flowers, petunia was more sensitive than marigold and adverse effects were observed within ca. 400 m distance from the sources for marigold and within ca. 460 m for petunia. The area at risk (ca. 870 m) for ethylene-induced growth reduction was also limited to the industrial zone. Plants were more sensitive to ethylene in terms of growth reduction than in terms of inhibition of flowering. In the Netherlands, maximum permissible levels of ethylene are currently based on information from laboratory and greenhouse studies. Our results indicate that these levels are rather conservative in protecting field-grown plants against ethylene-induced injury near polyethylene manufacturing plants
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S0269749102003780; Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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[en] In March 1960 the Board of Governors approved a document, entitled 'The Agency's Health and Safety Measures', which provided that the Agency's responsibility regarding health and safety required it to promulgate standards of two broad types: first, basic safety standards which prescribe maximum permissible levels of exposure to radiation and fundamental operational principles; and second, detailed operational standards relating to particular fields of application
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Available on-line: http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull042/04205800306.pdf; 2 figs, 1 tab
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Wrenn, M.E.; Durbin, P.W.; Willis, D.L.; Singh, N.P.
Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA)1987
Utah Univ., Salt Lake City (USA)1987
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[en] The nephrotoxic responses of mammalian species, including humans, to injected, inhaled, ingested, and topically applied uranium compounds have been thoroughly investigated. Because there appear to be unequivocal reports of uranium-induced radiation effects in humans, it is necessary to rely on experimental work with animals and on epidemiological investigations of human populations exposed to radium isotopes to infer human response to the alpha-particle emissions of uranium. Metabolic models have been developed to relate the intake of uranium in water and food to its uptake in the human skeleton and soft tissues. A US Environmental Protection Agency committee has recommended a limit for uranium in drinking water of 100 ug/L to limit effects on the kidney, which includes a substantial safety factor
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1987; 11 p; Available from NTIS, PC A03/MF A01; Pub. in Jnl. of American Water Works Association, Vol. 79, 177-184(Apr 87).
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Safety series; no. 38; 1973; 198 p; IAEA; Vienna; Will also be published in French, Russian and Spanish.
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[en] This article incorporates an article by E. Koehl from an internal Ontario Hydro publication, and a letter from the Joint Committee of Health and Safety of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, submitted to the Ontario Minister of the Environment and Energy. The Advisory Committee on Environmental Standards had recommended that the limit for tritium in Ontario drinking water be reduced from 40,000 to 100 Bq/L, with a further reduction to 20 in five years. Some facts and figures are adduced to show that the effect of tritium in drinking water in Ontario is negligible compared to the effect of background radiation. The risk from tritium to the people of Ontario is undetectably small, and the attempt to estimate this risk by linear extrapolation is extremely dubious. Regulation entails social and economic costs, and the government ought to ensure that the benefits exceed the costs. The costs translate into nothing less than wasted opportunity to save lives in other ways. 3 refs
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[en] The 2001/2008 World Health Organization (WHO)-based diagnostic criteria for polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) were recently revised to accomodate new information on disease-specific mutations and underscore distinguishing morphologic features. In this context, it seems to be reasonable to compare first major diagnostic criteria of the former WHO classifications for myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) and then to focus on details that have been discussed and will be proposed for the upcoming revision of diagnostic guidelines. In PV, a characteristic bone marrow (BM) morphology was added as one of three major diagnostic criteria, which allowed lowering of the hemoglobin/hematocrit threshold for diagnosis, which is another major criterion, to 16.5 g/dl/49% in men and 16 g/dl/48% in women. The presence of a JAK2 mutation remains the third major diagnostic criterion in PV. Subnormal serum erythropoietin level is now the only minor criterion in PV and is used to capture JAK2-unmutated cases. In ET and PMF, mutations that are considered to confirm clonality and specific diagnosis now include CALR, in addition to JAK2 and MPL. Also in the 2015 discussed revision, overtly fibrotic PMF is clearly distinguished from early/prefibrotic PMF and each PMF variant now includes a separate list of diagnostic criteria. The main rationale for these changes was to enhance the distinction between so-called masked PV and JAK2-mutated ET and between ET and prefibrotic early PMF. The proposed changes also underscore the complementary role, as well as limitations of mutation analysis in morphologic diagnosis. On the other hand, discovery of new biological markers may probably be expected in the future to enhance discrimination of the different MPN subtypes in accordance with the histological BM patterns and corresponding clinical features
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BCJ201564; Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bcj.2015.64; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4558589; PMCID: PMC4558589; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4558589; Copyright (c) 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Blood Cancer Journal; ISSN 2044-5385;
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Johnson, J.R.
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario. Chalk River Nuclear Labs1978
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Chalk River, Ontario. Chalk River Nuclear Labs1978
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[en] Four methods of estimating Working Levels with ''Instant Working Level Meters'' are reviewed. The accuracy and precision of these methods are evaluated for the range of concentrations of the short-lived daughters of 222Rn that exist in mining atmospheres. Included is a comparison of the overall uncertainty in the Working Level as measured using these methods with that measured with the more commonly used Kusnetz method. (author)
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Apr 1978; 28 p
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[en] The Advisory Committee on Environmental Standards recommended in a report released on May 17 1994 that the limit for tritium in Ontario drinking water be reduced from 40,000 to 100 Bq/L, with a further reduction to 20 in five years. In a letter to the Ontario Minister of Environment and Energy, the Royal Society of Canada challenged this recommendation. The letter, reproduced in full in this brief article, states that the risk from tritium to the people of Ontario is undetectably small, and the attempt to estimate this risk by linear extrapolation is extremely dubious. Regulation entails social and economic costs, and the government ought to ensure that the benefits exceed the costs. The costs translate into nothing less than wasted opportunity to save lives in other ways
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[en] Findings in the Food and Drug Administration's Radionuclides in Foods program are summarized for samples collected between October 1, 1982, and September 30, 1986. All radionuclide findings for Total Diet and reactor samples were either in Action Range I or low in Range II of the surveillance and control recommendations given by the Federal Radiation Council. The only long-range trend noted was a continuation of the general decline in dietary intake of 90Sr since 1961. Imported food samples were analyzed for contamination after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The findings for imported foods indicate that the surveillance efforts successfully targeted contaminated foods, and that contamination levels were below levels of concern for all but one oregano and 3 cheese samples
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Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists; ISSN 0004-5756;
; CODEN JANCA; v. 72(1); p. 15-18

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