This study suggests that, in a limited time period of 2 years, immediately placed implants with subsequent platform switching can provide peri-implant tissue stability.
Abstract. The
Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring data bank (REMdb) was created in the
aftermath of the Chernobyl accident (1986) by the European Commission (EC) –
Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), sited in Ispra (Italy).
Since then it has been maintained there with the aim to keep a historical
record of the Chernobyl accident and to store the radioactivity monitoring
data gathered through the national environmental monitoring programs of the
member states (MSs). The legal basis is the Euratom
Treaty, Chapter III Health and
Safety, Articles 35 and 36, which clarify that MSs shall periodically
communicate to the EC information on environmental radioactivity levels. By
collecting and validating this information in REMdb, JRC supports the DG for
Energy in its responsibilities in returning qualified information to the MSs
(competent authorities and general public) on the levels of radioactive
contamination of the various compartments of the environment (air, water,
soil) on the European Union scale. REMdb accepts data on radionuclide
concentrations from EU MSs in both environmental samples and foodstuffs from
1984 onwards. To date, the total number of data records stored in REMdb
exceeds 5 million, in this way providing the scientific community with a
valuable archive of environmental radioactivity topics in Europe. Records
stored in REMdb are publicly accessible until 2011 through an unrestricted
repository “REM data bank – Years 1984–2006”
https://doi.org/10.2905/jrc-10117-10024 (De Cort et al., 2007) and “REM data bank –
Years 2007–2011” https://doi.org/10.2905/de42f259-fafe-4329-9798-9d8fabb98de5 (De
Cort et al., 2012). Access to data from 2012 onwards is granted only after
explicit request, until the corresponding monitoring report is published.
Each data record contains information describing the sampling circumstances
(sampling type, begin and end time), measurement conditions (value, nuclide,
apparatus, etc.), location and date of sampling, and original data reference.
In this paper the scope, features and extension of REMdb are described in
detail.
In order to properly respond to an emergency caused by an accident in a nuclear power plant with a spread of radionuclides in the atmosphere, we propose a field procedure to perform a large-scale individual thyroid monitoring of internal contamination due to inhalation of 131I, by means of non-spectrometric equipment, in particular dose rate meters. Specific attention is paid to the individual monitoring of children, because of the very high radiosensitivity of the child’s thyroid to the carcinogenic effects of ionising radiation. The device performance was evaluated by measuring mock iodine sources provided in the Child and Adult Thyroid Monitoring After Reactor Accident (CAThyMARA) intercomparison and, just for a scintillator dose rate meter, by means of 60 s acquisitions of healthy volunteers’ thyroids. All the devices showed a remarkable accuracy in quantification of equivalent 131I activity in the thyroids of persons of all ages. The selected scintillator dose rate meter showed detection limit values resulting in a maximum committed equivalent dose to thyroid HT, assuming an acute 131I inhalation occurred five days before the measurement, equal to 10 mSv (related to five-year-old children). Considering the level of HT values associated with the calculated detection limit activities, the proposed procedure has a significant sensitivity to be used for fast internally thyroid monitoring in nuclear or radiological emergencies, allowing daily monitoring a large amount of individuals.
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