
doi: 10.2172/6801273
Emphasis is placed on the dosimetry for radon and daughters, rather than on monitoring and instrumentation. The objectives of the meeting were to exchange scientific information, to identify problem areas in radon-daughter dosimetry, and to make any observations or recommendations by the participants through issuance of this report. The discussion topics included the history of dosimetry for radon and daughters, human data, aerosols, deposition and movement in the respiratory tract, dose calculations, dose-to-working-level-month (WLM) conversion factors, animal experiments, and the development of regulations and remedial criteria for reducing population exposures to radon daughters. This report contains a summary of Workshop discussions plus individual statements contributed by several of the participants. The outstanding problem areas from the standpoint of dosimetry appear to involve the appropriate lung organ mass to be used (average lung-tissue dose vs. high-level local dose); recognition of the discrete, rather than continuous, structure of the mucus; lack of knowledge about lung clearance; the variability of dose with the degree of disequilibrium and the unattached fraction of radon daughters for a given WLM; and questions about the character of uranium mine atmospheres actually breathed in the older mines from which much of the epidemiological information originates. The development ofmore » criteria for taking remedial action to reduce exposures involves additional concerns of basing long-term risk assessment on short-term sampling and applying WLM data for miners to general populations.« less
Daughter Products, Radiation Doses, Excretion, Miners, Distribution, Environment, Ores, Doses, Lung Clearance, Atmospheric-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989), Isotopes, Thermal, Personnel Dosimetry, Dosimetry, Personnel, Radioactive Aerosols, Tissue Distribution, Colloids, Dispersions, 54 Environmental Sciences, And Other Environ. Pollutant Effects On Living Orgs. And Biol. Mat, Aerosols, Hazards, Internal Irradiation, 63 Radiation, 560161 -- Radionuclide Effects, 054000 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Health & Safety, Mines, Elements, 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials, Rare Gases, Kinetics, Nonmetals, Inhalation, Health Hazards, Radon, Clearance, Intake, Irradiation, Uranium Ores, Sols 500300* -- Environment, & Toxicology-- Man
Daughter Products, Radiation Doses, Excretion, Miners, Distribution, Environment, Ores, Doses, Lung Clearance, Atmospheric-- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989), Isotopes, Thermal, Personnel Dosimetry, Dosimetry, Personnel, Radioactive Aerosols, Tissue Distribution, Colloids, Dispersions, 54 Environmental Sciences, And Other Environ. Pollutant Effects On Living Orgs. And Biol. Mat, Aerosols, Hazards, Internal Irradiation, 63 Radiation, 560161 -- Radionuclide Effects, 054000 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Health & Safety, Mines, Elements, 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials, Rare Gases, Kinetics, Nonmetals, Inhalation, Health Hazards, Radon, Clearance, Intake, Irradiation, Uranium Ores, Sols 500300* -- Environment, & Toxicology-- Man
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