title: A real-time internal dose assessment exercise.
abstract: A real-time internal dose assessment exercise has been conducted in which participants were required to make decisions about sampling requirements, seek relevant information about the 'incident' and make various interim dose assessments. At the end of the exercise, each participant was requested to make a formal assessment, providing statements of the methods, models and assumptions used in that assessment. In this paper we describe how the hypothetical assessment case was set up and the exercise was conducted, the responses of the participants and the assessments of dose that they made. Finally we discuss the lessons learnt from the exercise and suggest how the exercise may be adapted to a wider range of participants.
authors.affiliation: AWE, Aldermaston, Reading RG7 4PR, UK. derek.bingham@awe.co.uk
authors.forename: Derek
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.forename: Richard K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Bull
mesh_terms: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements / Q000032:analysis*; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D001681:Biological Assay / Q000379:methods*; D001822:Body Burden; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015588:Observer Variation; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D008671:Actinoid Series Elements; D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive