External radiation doses received by female radium dial painters

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6557790

Rowland, R E; Lucas, H F; Schlenker, R A

While almost all the studies of the dial painters have concentrated on their internally deposited radium, the dial painters also received an external dose from the gamma rays emitted by radium and its daughter products. Each painter worked with a container of paint containing radium in front of her, and a collection of finished dials beside her. Each work station then was a radiation source, and each painter in the room was irradiated by her own sources of radium in front of her, by the radium on every other work station in the room, and by the radium contamination on the floors and desks. Each day that a painter worked she would have received a dose from these external sources which was unrelated to her internally deposited radium, but dependent on her work place. It is the purpose of this study to estimate the external dose in the work place, to determine the dose received from these external sources for each female dial painter from the length of time she worked, and to examine the relationship between external dose and the causes of death.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6557790
• Report Number(s): CONF-8810248-1; ON: DE89003656
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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