Document Type
Annual Report
Publication Date
2002
First page number:
1
Last page number:
9
Abstract
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Transmutation Research Program has been tasked to support U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts to assess the health risks associated with the operation of each of their accelerator-driven nuclear facilities for both NEPA and PSAR development. Quantifying the radiological risks to workers will have to be addressed during the design and siting of each of these facilities. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Guidance Report No. 11 “Limiting Values of Intake and Air Concentration and Dose Conversion Factors for Inhalation, Submersion, and Ingestion”, developed two derived guides, Annual Limit on Intake (ALI) and the Derived Air Concentration (DAC), to be used to control radiation exposure in the workplace. The ALI is the annual intake of a radionuclide which would result in a committed effective dose equivalent of 0.05 Sv/yr for stochastic effects, or a committed dose equivalent to an individual organ or tissue of 0.5 Sv/yr for deterministic effects, to Reference Man (ICRP 1975). A DAC is that concentration of a radionuclide in air which, if breathed by Reference Man for a work-year, would result in an intake corresponding to its ALI (EPA 1988). Therefore, ALIs and DACs can be used for assessing radiation doses due to accidental ingestion and inhalation of radionuclides and are used for limiting radionuclide intake through breathing of, or submersion in, contaminated air.
Keywords
Accelerator-driven systems; Radiation dosimetry; Radioisotopes – Measurement; Spallation (Nuclear physics)
Controlled Subject
Accelerator-driven systems; Radiation dosimetry; Spallation (Nuclear physics)
Disciplines
Health and Medical Physics | Nuclear | Radiochemistry
File Format
File Size
88 KB
Language
English
Rights
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Repository Citation
Patton, P. W.,
Rudin, M.
(2002).
Development of Dose Coefficients for Radionulides Produced in Spallation Neutron Sources: Annual Report.
1-9.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/hrc_trp_sciences_physics/21