Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk

• Autore: Tokonami Shinji
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Biography and non-fiction prose
• Soggetto geografico: Waddawalla / Well 40 (Great Sandy Desert WA SF51-08)
• Soggetto non controllato: 220Rn progeny; 222Rn progeny; 226Ra; 228Ra; 238U; air dose rate; air-exchange rate; artificial radionuclides; bottled water; cesium-134; cesium-137; chemical composition; contaminated water; CR-39; deposition velocity; detection limit; deuterium plasma experiment; development; dietary intake; difficult-to-return zone; dose; dose assessment; effective dose; effective dose rate; environment; equilibrium equivalent concentration; evacuation order-lifted areas; exhalation rate; external exposure dose evaluation; external exposure risk; free-roaming cat; Fukushima; Fukushima accident; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident; fusion test facility; gamma radiation; geography information systems; geology; groundwater; guidance level; health risk; hot spring; indoor; indoor environment; ingestion; internal contamination; Japan; limestone aquifer; living space; long-term measurement; measurement technique; monthly precipitation; Namie Town; nationwide survey; natural radionuclides; northern Vietnam; Okinawa Island; passive radon monitor; potassium-40; public health; radioactive cesium; radioactivity; radiocesium; radiological hazards; radon; radon concentration; radon mapping; radon potential map; REE and uranium mines; reproductive organ; residence time; residential exposure; risk; seasonal variation; seawater monitoring; sensitivity; SSNTD; strontium-90; surface soil; thoron; thoron progeny; Tomioka town; total diet study; tritium monitoring; well water; WHO
• Persona (resp. second.): KashiwakuraIkuo; TokonamiShinji
• Sommario/riassunto: Ten years have passed since the nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima, Japan, following the Great East Japan earthquake. Thereafter, many people around the world have been concerned about the risks posed by radiation. They still believe that even a small amount of radiation exposure will affect human health. In reality, however, there are many natural radionuclides in the environment, which emit a variety of types of radiation. Although it is well known that there is a positively linear relationship between acute radiation exposure and cancer risk in atomic bomb survivors, the risk of chronic radiation exposure due to natural radionuclides cannot be well explained to people who have lived in high-background radiation areas for many generations. Therefore, more studies in this research field are required to obtain new scientific findings. In order to promote further scientific activities, it will be the best for us to understand the current status of this field by summarizing what we have apprehended so far. This Special Issue will highlight measurement data, methodologies, radiation biology, and risk assessment related to radiation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity and Radiation for Human Health Risk
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557530803321
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