The outcomes of functioning of the Unified System of Individual Dose Control of the Russian Federation citizens based on the 2019 data

Барковский, А. Н.; Akhmatdinov, R. R.; Ахматдинов, Рустам Р.; Библин, А. М.; Братилова, А. А.; Zhuravleva, V. E.; Кормановская, Т. А.; Кувшинников, С. И.; Sivenkov, A. G.; Тутельян, О. Е.; Цовьянов, А.

doi:10.21514/1998-426x-2020-13-4-110-119

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“…Радон -природный радиоактивный газ без цвета, вкуса и запаха, является не только наиболее значимым источником природного облучения населения во всем мире [1][2][3], но и вносит основной вклад в индивидуальную годовую дозу облучения за счет всех источников ионизирующего излучения (составляющий в Российской Федерации более 50 % [4][5][6]). Радон при этом зачастую остается в «информационной тени» других источников, в первую очередь, объектов атомной энергетики и различного медицинского оборудования, дающих на самом деле гораздо меньший вклад в коллективную дозу.…”

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Radon Risk Communication Issues: Results of the All-Russian Public Opinion Survey

Davydov¹,

Библин²,

Kononenko³

2021

Health Risk Analysis

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1,500 respondents took part in an Internet survey conducted in autumn 2020 in the Russian Federation. The survey was a part of the Radon Cross-Cultural Multilingual Public Opinion Survey (STEAM project) in the framework of the IAEA technical cooperation project RER9153. The survey was representative for the population of the country as per sex, age, and a region of residence. Random sampling error didn’t exceed 2.5 % for 95 % confidence interval. All respondents were given some information on radon that was as similar as possible in questionnaires published in languages spoken in all 22 coun- tries that took part in the STEAM project; it was done in order to provide an opportunity to make further cross-country com- parison of the survey results. The objective of the survey was to investigate what attitudes people had towards their health and towards radon as a possible health risk factor. The survey revealed that in the Russian Federation people were rather poorly aware about radon. Only 31.7 % re- spondents stated that they were to a greater or lesser extent informed about radon. The level of knowledge about radon as a health risk factor was at a comparable level. For the majority of respondents, information about radon received from Ro- spotrebnadzor and its subordinate research institute formed the perception of radon as a risk factor that requires actions to mitigate its impact on health. Medical specialists turned out to be the most trustworthy source of information about health risks, first of all, family doctors and physicians in polyclinics; people also trusted medical prevention centers, Rospotrebnad- zor, regional and local public health care authorities. Results of the presented survey that was the first social survey focusing on the radon problem and conducted throughout the country can be used as a basis for planning communication strategies within the framework of both national and regional radon programs.

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Radon Risk Communication Issues: Results of the All-Russian Public Opinion Survey

Davydov¹,

Библин²,

Kononenko³

2021

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Assessment of radon levels in multistory buildings on example of eight Russian cities

Zhukovsky,

Yarmoshenko,

Onishchenko

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Radiac. gig. (2008)

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In this work, the results of radon concentration measurements in samples of multi-storey apartment buildings in eight large cities of Russia are analyzed. Two samples, depending on the year of construction of the building – before and after 2000, were formed in each city on the basis of a quasi-random approach. Radon concentration measurements were performed using radon radiometers equipped with the CR-39 solid-state nuclear track detector. In the flats of multi-storey buildings, two radiometers were installed and flat’s average radon concentration was calculated. The exposure period for the radon radiometers was three months. To estimate the average annual radon concentration, seasonal coefficients calculated for the primary radon entry from building materials were used. In total, radon concentration measurements were carried out in 1032 flats. It was assumed that the combined sample for the cities of Ekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, and Chelyabinsk is representative for the multi-storey buildings in non-capital cities of Russia. The following arithmetic mean annual radon concentrations were obtained in samples of houses built up before and after 2000, respectively: Moscow – 17 and 21 Bq/m3; St. Petersburg – 15 and 25 Bq/ m3, the group of non-capital cities – 25 and 31 Bq/m3. Taking into account the contribution of each group of buildings to the general urban housing stock, the parameters characterizing the radon concentration in multi-storey multi-apartment urban buildings in Russia were calculated as follows: arithmetic mean 25 Bq/ m3; geometric mean 21 Bq/m3; the geometric standard deviation is 1.81. In general, exposure to indoor radon in multi-storey urban buildings in Russia is low both in terms of average value and range of concentrations. There is a tendency towards an increase in indoor radon exposure of the population in new buildings, which is associated with the introduction of construction technologies that increase the energy efficiency of buildings.

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Evaluation of the radiation risk of medical examinations in the Russian Federation taking into account the age and sex distribution of the patients

Golikov

2022

Radiac. gig. (2008)

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The aim of the study was to develop a methodology that allows taking into account the age and sex dependencies of the risk of radiogenic cancer and the age and sex distribution of the patients to evaluate the collective risk due to separate X-ray examinations and medical exposure in the Russian Federation as a whole. Methodology is based on the use of lifetime risk coefficients estimated for the Russian and Composite population and the results of the study of typical doses of patients for various X-ray examinations in the Russian Federation. It is shown that the assessment of the radiation risk of separate X-ray examinations calculated using lifetime age and sex risk coefficients, organ doses and age distributions of patients may differ up to order of magnitude from the risk assessment based on effective dose and nominal risk coefficients. The difference in estimating of the collective risk of total medical exposure in the Russian Federation by these two methods reached 2.5 times in 2018.

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The outcomes of functioning of the Unified System of Individual Dose Control of the Russian Federation citizens based on the 2019 data

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Radon Risk Communication Issues: Results of the All-Russian Public Opinion Survey

Radon Risk Communication Issues: Results of the All-Russian Public Opinion Survey

Assessment of radon levels in multistory buildings on example of eight Russian cities

Evaluation of the radiation risk of medical examinations in the Russian Federation taking into account the age and sex distribution of the patients

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