Calculation of the individual effective dose equivalent in Italy following the chernobyl accident

Lotfi, Mahshid; Mancioppi, S.; Piermattei, S.; Tommasino, L.; Azimi-Garakani, D.

doi:10.1016/0265-931x(91)90056-l

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“…Local experts provided dose estimates for Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation, where extensive work has been undertaken developing and validating methods for dose reconstruction (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23) . For less affected European countries, information on country-specific radiation data and dose estimates was either obtained from local experts: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Lithuania and Switzerland; and/or from published data: Austria (24)(25)(26)(27)(28) , Belgium (29) , Bulgaria (30) , Croatia (31,32) , the Czech Republic (33,34) , Estonia (35) , Finland (36) , France (37) , Greece (38,39) , Hungary (40) , Italy (41,42) , Lithuania (43,44) , Norway (45,46) , Serbia and Montenegro (47) , Slovakia (48,49) , Sweden (50) , Switzerland (51) and the United Kingdom (52,53) .…”

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Radiation exposure to the population of Europe following the Chernobyl accident

Drozdovitch¹,

Bouville²,

Chobanova³

et al. 2007

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident an attempt has been made to evaluate the impact of the Chernobyl accident on the global burden of human cancer in Europe. This required the estimation of radiation doses in each of the 40 European countries. Dose estimation was based on the analysis and compilation of data either published in the scientific literature or provided by local experts. Considerable variability has been observed in exposure levels among the European populations. The average individual doses to the thyroid from the intake of 131 I for children aged 1 y were found to vary from $0.01 mGy in Portugal up to 750 mGy in Gomel Oblast (Belarus). Thyroid doses to adults were consistently lower than the doses received by young children. The average individual effective doses from external exposure and ingestion of long-lived radiocaesium accrued in the period 1986-2005 varied from $0 in Portugal to $10 mSv in Gomel Oblast (Belarus) and Bryansk Oblast (Russia). The uncertainties in the dose estimates were subjectively estimated on the basis of the availability and reliability of the radiation data that were used for dose reconstruction in each country.

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