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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.
Hiroshi Kinuhata, Masahiko Yamamoto, Shigeo Taguchi, Naoki Surugaya, Soichi Sato, Takashi Kodama, Yoshikazu Tamauchi, Yuki Shibata, Kiyoshi Anzai, Shingo Matsuoka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 2 | November 2015 | Pages 155-159
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-15
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experiments using a small-scale apparatus with 30 ml of actual high-level liquid waste from the Tokai Reprocessing Plant were carried out to show that the hydrogen concentration in the gas phase reaches a steady-state value of much less than 4% (lower explosive limit) in the absence of sweeping air. The H2 concentration reached a steady-state value as was expected, and it was compared with a value predicted from an equation with parameters that had been obtained using the simulated solution. Satisfactory agreement showed that the Pd-ion catalytic H2 consumption reaction previously found in the simulated solution proceeded equally well in the actual solution.