Assessment and significance of the skeletal doses due to /sup 210/Po in radioactive spa workers
The high exposure due to radon and daughter products found in many Italian radioactive spas, suggested a research program designed to assess the lung and skeletal doses accumulated by the subjects working in those spas. The assessment of such doses will permit the evaluation of the significance of a follow-up of the exposed subjects with epidemiological studies. In this paper some preliminary results will be discussed, mainly related to the estimation of the /sup 210/Po skeletal doses in a few subjects. The /sup 210/Pb-/sup 210/Po skeletal burdens in the subjects have been evaluated on the basis of their /sup 210/Pb-/sup 210/Po urinary excretion collected at various intervals during a period of 1 year. The experimental results on the most exposed subjects have shown skeletal doses of the order of 20 to 40 rem/year and lung exposures higher than 100 WLM (Working Level Month).
- Research Organization:
- CSN-Casaccia CNEN, Rome, Italy
- OSTI ID:
- 5457140
- Journal Information:
- Environ. Res.; (United States), Vol. 18:1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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560171* - Radiation Effects- Nuclide Kinetics & Toxicology- Man- (-1987)