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Funding organisation: US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (United States); US National Cancer Institute (United States)
Environmental Modelling for Radiation Safety (EMRAS) - A Summary Report of the Results of the EMRAS Programme (2003-2007)2012
Environmental Modelling for Radiation Safety (EMRAS) - A Summary Report of the Results of the EMRAS Programme (2003-2007)2012
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[en] The Chernobyl 131I Release Working Group (IWG) which was established within the framework of the EMRAS Programme continues some of the more traditional work of previous international programmes that were aimed at increasing confidence in methods and models for the assessment of radiation exposure related to the environmental releases. There is still very little information regarding the quantitative relationship between radiation dose to the thyroid from Chernobyl and the risk of thyroid cancer. The uncertainty combined with individual estimates of radiation dose constitutes a crucial point in establishing this relationship, since, any release of radioiodine into environment creates wide range of uncertainty for internal dose assessments. The 131I scenarios provide an excellent opportunity to compare a number of modelling approaches to a single assessment problem, in a dose reconstruction context. Nine experts in environmental modelling participated in the Plavsk Scenario dealing with areas of assessment modelling for which the capabilities are not yet well established. One could observes the remarkably improvement in models performance comparing with previous radioiodine scenarios. Predictions of the various models were within a factor of three of the observations, discrepancies between the estimates of average doses to thyroid produced by most participant not exceeded a factor of ten. The process of testing independent model calculations against independent data set also provided useful information to the originators of the test data.
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Assessment and Management of Environmental Releases Unit, Vienna (Austria); [1 CD-ROM]; ISBN 978-92-0-129810-2;
; ISSN 1011-4289;
; Jun 2012; 440 p; PROJECT NIAID-Y2-AL-5077; PROJECT NCI-Y3-CO-5117; Available on-line: http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/TE_1678_CD/Reports/Theme_1_WorkingGroup3(ChernobylI-131Release)/The%20Chernobyl%20I-131Release-ModelValidationandAssessmentoftheCountermeasureEffectiveness.pdf


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