title: Verification of occupational doses at the first nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union.
abstract: Mean annual occupational exposures are reported for radiation workers at the first Russian industrial nuclear facility 'Mayak', South Ural region, for the period 1948-1988. The underlying individual doses originate from the register of the in-plant radiation safety department and are based on local film dosimetry results. Differentiation is made between personnel working at reactor and radiochemical processing plants. Verification of summed film doses is performed by means of ESR dose reconstruction using extracted teeth from selected individuals. Explanations are given for observed discrepancies between the reconstructed individual doses and original integrated film dosimetry results. The research potential of combined dose information from specific tooth enamel and dentine are shown.
authors.affiliation: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Metal Physics, EPR Spectroscopy Center, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Romanyukha
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Regulla
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Vasilenko
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wieser
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Drozhko
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Lyzlov
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Koshurnikova
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Shilnikova
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Panfilov
mesh_terms: D003743:Dental Enamel / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D003804:Dentin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000528:radiation effects; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D005373:Film Dosimetry; D005609:Free Radicals / Q000032:analysis / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011210:Power Plants; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia; D013324:Strontium / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D005609:Free Radicals; D013324:Strontium