title: Feasibility study for the assessment of the exposed dose with TENORM added in consumer products.
abstract: Consumer products including naturally occurring radioactive material have been distributed widely in human life. The potential hazard of the excessively added technically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material (TENORM) in consumer products should be assessed. The aim of this study is to evaluate the organ equivalent dose and the annual effective dose with the usage of the TENORM added in paints. The activities of gammas emitted from natural radionuclides in the five types of paints were measured with the high-purity germanium detector, and the annual effective dose was assessed with the computational human phantom and the Monte Carlo method. The results show that uranium and thorium series were mainly measured over the five paints. Based on the exposure scenario of the paints in the room, the highest effective dose was evaluated as <1 mSv y(-1) of the public dose limit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1, Yonseidae-gil, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-710, Korea.
authors.forename: Do Hyeon
authors.initials: do H
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1, Yonseidae-gil, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-710, Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun Cheol
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1, Yonseidae-gil, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-710, Korea.
authors.forename: Wook-Geun
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.affiliation: Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, 75, Nowon-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-706, Korea.
authors.forename: Wi-Ho
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Ha
authors.affiliation: Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, 75, Nowon-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-706, Korea.
authors.forename: Jae Ryong
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.affiliation: Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, 75, Nowon-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-706, Korea.
authors.forename: Seok-Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.affiliation: Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, 62, Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-338, Korea.
authors.forename: Jiyon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, 62, Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-338, Korea.
authors.forename: Won-Chul
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, Yonsei University, 1, Yonseidae-gil, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do 220-710, Korea chmin@yonsei.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Chul Hee
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Min
mesh_terms: D001417:Background Radiation; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D008420:Manufactured Materials / Q000032:analysis*; D010150:Paint / Q000032:analysis*; D000069079:Radiation Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D056910:Republic of Korea; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes