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Gomez Parada, I.; Rojo, A.M.
Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, Buenos Aires (Argentina)2000
Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear, Buenos Aires (Argentina)2000
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[en] In 1997 the Argentine Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ARN) was invited to participate in the '3rd. European Intercomparison Exercise on Internal Dose Assessment'. This paper presents the solution submitted by the ARN to one of the cases proposed in the exercise. This is a real case of continuous ingestion of cesium 137 due to the environmental contamination arising from the Chernobyl accident. The subject was member of the public and the results of whole body counter measurements were provided. The monitoring period spanned from the first month after the accident to approximately 880 days later. The solution implied to estimate the total intake for the accident until the end of the monitoring period, the effective dose received by the subject in 1986 and 1987 respectively and the committed effective dose due to the total intake. For the intake assessment the code Cindy v 1.4 was used, assuming a constant rate of intake during the whole period of intake. The systemic retention model for caesium was that of the ICRP 30, with a modified biological half-life of the long-term retention. The dates of the beginning and end of the period of intake were chosen, using the same software, looking for the ones that fits better to the measurements data. This rate of intake and the same metabolic models used for the intake assessment were the input to the CINDY code to find the dose received by the subject in 1986 and 1987 respectively, as well as the committed effective dose. An alternative dose assessment was made, directly from body burden measurements, in order to compare the obtained values. In this approach, the software Origin 4.0 was used to graph the whole body activity measurements and the integrate it for the desired time intervals. Applying the corresponding Specific Effective Energy value obtained from LUPED 2.06 for the reference man, the effective doses were obtained directly from body burden. It was found that the values for the effective doses were almost the same for the two different approaches. (authors)
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Evaluacion dosimetrica de un caso de incorporacion continua de Cs 137
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2000; 7 p; 4 refs.; 5 figs.
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ACCIDENTS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, COMPUTER CODES, COUNTING TECHNIQUES, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EUROPE, GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, IRRADIATION, ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS, ISOTOPES, LATIN AMERICA, LWGR TYPE REACTORS, MATERIALS, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, POPULATIONS, POWER REACTORS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, SOUTH AMERICA, THERMAL REACTORS, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WESTERN EUROPE, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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