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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.
Karl Heinemann, Ralf Hille, Kurt Jürgen Vogt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 61 | Number 1 | April 1983 | Pages 17-24
Technical Paper | Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33139
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The initiation of emergency measures to protect the public after a nuclear accident must be based on immediate measurements of external doses and inhalation doses in inhabited areas. The external radiation exposure from the plume and soil can be determined with dose rate meters. Due to the different biological effects of the individual nuclides, the detection of the inhalation doses calls for nuclide analysis of the air concentration. Radiation exposure calculations of light-water and high-temperature reactors and other nuclear installations proved that only a few nuclides cause the main contribution to the inhalation dose. In the case of reactors, the critical nuclide is 131I. After examining accidents in other nuclear facilities, different nuclides, e.g., strontium and plutonium, may become relevant.