External dose reconstruction in tooth enamel of Techa riverside residents.
This study summarizes the 20-year efforts for dose reconstruction in tooth enamel of the Techa riverside residents exposed to ionizing radiation as a result of radionuclide releases into the river in 1949-1956. It represents the first combined analysis of all the data available on EPR dosimetry with teeth of permanent residents of the Techa riverside territory. Results of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) measurements of 302 teeth donated by 173 individuals living permanently in Techa riverside settlements over the period of 1950-1952 were analyzed. These people were residents of villages located at the free-flowing river stream or at the banks of stagnant reservoirs such as ponds or blind river forks. Cumulative absorbed doses measured using EPR are from several sources of exposure, viz., background radiation, internal exposure due to bone-seeking radionuclides (89Sr,90Sr/90Y), internal exposure due to137Cs/137mBa incorporated in soft tissues, and anthropogenic external exposure. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the contribution of different sources of enamel exposure and to deduce external doses to be used for validation of the Techa River Dosimetry System (TRDS). Since various EPR methods were used, harmonization of these methods was critical. Overall, the mean cumulative background dose was found to be 63 ± 47 mGy; cumulative internal doses due to89Sr and90Sr/90Y were within the range of 10-110 mGy; cumulative internal doses due to137Cs/137mBa depend on the distance from the site of releases and varied from 1 mGy up to 90 mGy; mean external doses were maximum for settlements located at the banks of stagnant reservoirs (~500 mGy); in contrast, external doses for settlements located along the free-flowing river stream did not exceed 160 mGy and decreased downstream with increasing distance from the site of release. External enamel doses calculated using the TRDS code and derived from the EPR measurements were found to be in good agreement.
Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, 68A, Vorovsky Str., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454076. lena@urcrm.ru.
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Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, 68A, Vorovsky Str., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454076.
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Southern Urals State University, 76, Lenin Av., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454080.
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Timofeev
Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
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German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
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M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 S. Kovalevskaya Street, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 620990.|Ural Federal University, 19 Mira Str, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 620002.
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Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, 68A, Vorovsky Str., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454076.
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Southern Urals State University, 76, Lenin Av., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454080.
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Rome, Italy.
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Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine, 68A, Vorovsky Str., Chelyabinsk, Russia, 454076.
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University of Utah, 201 Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003743:Dental Enamel / Q000528:radiation effects*; D004578:Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011850:Radioactive Waste; D011874:Radiometry; D045483:Rivers; D012426:Russia
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Background dose; EPR dosimetry; Environmental exposure; Harmonization; Strontium; The Techa River