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The Techa River dosimetry system: methods for the reconstruction of internal dose.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  10855775     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The Mayak Production Association (MPA) was the first facility in the former Soviet Union for the production of plutonium. Significant worker and population exposures occurred as a result of failures in the technological processes in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Residents of many villages downstream on the Techa River were exposed via a variety of pathways; the more significant included drinking of water from the river and external gamma exposure due to proximity to contaminated bottom sediment and shoreline. After the extent of the major contamination of the Techa River became known, several villages on the upper part of the Techa River were evacuated. Organ doses are being reconstructed on the basis of derivation of an historical source term and a simple river model used to simulate the transport of radionuclides downstream and their retention on sediments; measurements of 90Sr content in teeth and the whole body of half of the members of the cohort; and development of the "Techa River Dosimetry System" for computation of the doses.
Authors:
M O Degteva; V P Kozheurov; E I Tolstykh; M I Vorobiova; L R Anspaugh; B A Napier; A N Kovtun
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Health physics     Volume:  79     ISSN:  0017-9078     ISO Abbreviation:  Health Phys     Publication Date:  2000 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2000-06-29     Completed Date:  2000-06-29     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  2985093R     Medline TA:  Health Phys     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  24-35     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Aging / metabolism
Body Burden
Humans
Models, Theoretical
Radioisotopes / pharmacokinetics
Radiometry
Russia
Strontium Radioisotopes / pharmacokinetics
Water Pollution, Radioactive*
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Radioisotopes; 0/Strontium Radioisotopes

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