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The U.S. Million Person Study of Low-Dose-Rate Health Effects
There is a critical knowledge gap regarding the health consequences of exposure to radiation received gradually over time. While there is a plethora of studies on the risks of adverse outcomes from both acute and high-dose exposures, including the landmark study of atomic bomb survivors, these are not characteristic of the chronic exposure to low-dose radiation encountered in occupational and public settings. In addition, smaller cohorts have limited numbers leading to reduced statistical power.
Barry E. Scheetz, William B. White, Scott D. Atkinson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 289-296
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32856
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Solubility effects were measured on ceramic and single crystal alumina, titania, SrTiO3 (perovskite structure), and ceramic zirconia at 300 and 400°C for times of 7 and 18 days. Selected fluids were deionized water, a high-bicarbonate, high-sulfate simulated connate water (∼1% total dissolved solids), saturated NaCl brine, and a high-magnesium, high-calcium bittern brine. There is measurable dissolution of Al3+ in the connate water and in the bittern brine only. In both cases this can be related to the low pH conditions expected in these fluids at high temperature and to the increase in aluminum solubility with decreasing pH. The SrTiO3 breaks down to some extent in all fluids in the order bittern brine >NaCl >bicarbonate water >deionized water. Dissolution attack on both titanium and zirconium oxides is very small, indicating that the oxides are stable in the pressure-tempera-ture-fluid composition regime. Breakdown of the perovskite phase appears to be by incongruent dissolution with concurrent precipitation of the titanium oxide.