Abstract
During the early response to large-scale radioactive contamination events, people who are potentially affected need to be screened for radioactive contamination and public health staff need to triage individuals who may need immediate decontamination. This is typically done by screening individuals for external contamination using ionising radiation detection equipment. In this study, spatially and temporally dependent isotopic compositions from a simulated nuclear detonation and Monte Carlo methods were used to relate contamination activity levels to the measurable radiation levels at select distances away from an individual with whole-body contamination. Radionuclide-specific air kerma rate coefficients and Geiger-Mueller instrument response coefficients at five select distances from contaminated individuals are presented for 662 radionuclides. Temporally and spatially dependent incident-specific coefficients are presented for a hypothetical surface detonation of a 235U-fueled device.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1310-1323 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Radiation Protection Dosimetry |
| Volume | 199 |
| Issue number | 12 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1 2023 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy. The US Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide licence to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). This work was supported by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health, National Center for Environmental Health, under Interagency Agreement DOE No. 42WZ05105 and 42WZ46502, under contract No. (DE-AC05-00OR22725) with UT-Battelle. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of their employers.