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Title: Estimation of food consumption. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project

Abstract

The research reported in this document was conducted as a part of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project. The objective of the HEDR Project is to estimate the radiation doses that people could have received from operations at the Hanford Site. Information required to estimate these doses includes estimates of the amounts of potentially contaminated foods that individuals in the region consumed during the study period. In that general framework, the objective of the Food Consumption Task was to develop a capability to provide information about the parameters of the distribution(s) of daily food consumption for representative groups in the population for selected years during the study period. This report describes the methods and data used to estimate food consumption and presents the results developed for Phase I of the HEDR Project.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10139292
Report Number(s):
PNL-7260-HEDR
ON: DE92013016
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Apr 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; FOOD; INGESTION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; DOSE RATES; RADIATION DOSES; HANFORD RESERVATION; WASHINGTON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY; COMPILED DATA; COLUMBIA RIVER; FISHES; SURVEYS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; JUVENILES; ADULTS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; 540230; 560101; 054000; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT; DOSIMETRY AND MONITORING; HEALTH AND SAFETY

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Callaway, J.M. Jr. Estimation of food consumption. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project. United States: N. p., 1992. Web. doi:10.2172/10139292.
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title = {Estimation of food consumption. Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project},
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abstractNote = {The research reported in this document was conducted as a part of the Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction (HEDR) Project. The objective of the HEDR Project is to estimate the radiation doses that people could have received from operations at the Hanford Site. Information required to estimate these doses includes estimates of the amounts of potentially contaminated foods that individuals in the region consumed during the study period. In that general framework, the objective of the Food Consumption Task was to develop a capability to provide information about the parameters of the distribution(s) of daily food consumption for representative groups in the population for selected years during the study period. This report describes the methods and data used to estimate food consumption and presents the results developed for Phase I of the HEDR Project.},
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year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992},
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