title: Countrywide radiation dose in different locations, dwellings and free spaces of Bangladesh.
abstract: The research work was aimed to determine the fatal cancer risk due to the radiation exposure on population of Bangladesh. The total risk is somewhat higher. However, the average total fatal probability coefficient was found to be 101 cases per million people, the range of which was from 78 to 144 per million people. The lowest risk was found for the people of Srimangal (Maulavibazar) and Sandweep, while the risk was highest for the people of Nachole (Chapai Nawabgonj) and Badalgachhi (Naogaon), the two locations are in the Borendra region. The risk factors were found to be around average level for the people of Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi. Since a very significant portion of people of Bangladesh live in these areas, the calculated average risk factor become more meaningful. Moreover, as both the average effective dose equivalents and the population density in Bangladesh are higher than those of the countries compared, the people of Bangladesh are in more risk than those countries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh.
authors.forename: Shyamal Ranjan
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong-4331, Bangladesh kowsar.alam@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Md Kowsar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Alam
mesh_terms: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000453:epidemiology; D003359:Cosmic Radiation / Q000009:adverse effects; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000032:analysis*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive