Assessment of doses to adult members of the public in Palomares from inhalation of plutonium and americium

A. Espinosa; A. Aragon; N. Stradling; Alan Hodgson; A. Birchall

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032382

Assessment of doses to adult members of the public in Palomares from inhalation of plutonium and americium

A. Espinosa^*, A. Aragon, N. Stradling, Alan Hodgson, A. Birchall

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Abstract

The doses to adults in Palomares resulting from an aviation accident in 1996 are reappraised. For this purpose, site- and material-specific data on airborne contamination and the absorption biokinetics of ²³⁹Pu in animals are used in conjunction with recent ICRP biokinetic models. The committed effective doses for members of the public ranging from 0.037 to 0.21 mSv depending on different work practices are well below the limit of 1 mSv.y^-1 currently recommended by ICRP. The predicted urinary excretion rates of ²³⁹Pu show that fission track or mass spectrometry techniques must be used for bioassay for cases of low chronic intake.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-164
Number of pages	4
Journal	Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Volume	79
Issue number	1-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032382
Publication status	Published - 1998

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