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Main Title Radioiodine prediction model for nuclear tests /
Author Black, Stuart C., ; Barth., Delbert S.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Barth, Delbert S.
CORP Author Environmental Monitoring and Support Lab., Las Vegas, Nev.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Available through the National Technical Information Service.
Year Published 1976
Report Number EPA-600/4-76-027
Stock Number PB-255 629
OCLC Number 02416776
Subjects Iodine--Isotopes ; Radioactive substances--Toxicology ; Radioactive contamination of milk ; Radioactive pollution ; Radioactive Fallout ; Radioactive Pollutants--isolation & purification ; Radioisotopes--adverse effects
Additional Subjects Iodine 131 ; Radiation dosage ; Health physics ; Nuclear explosion effects ; Food chains ; Thyroid glands ; Experimental data ; Iodine isotopes ; Radioactive isotopes ; Predictions ; Ecology ; Humans ; Mathematical models ; Aerosols ; Cattle ; Inhalation ; Radiation hazards ; Vegetation ; Milk ; Infants ; Ingestion(Biology) ; Radioecology ; Path of pollutants
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=91013LQ1.PDF
Holdings
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EJAD  EPA 600/4-76-027 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 03/05/1993 DISPERSAL
EJED  EPA 600/4-76/027 OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC 02/11/2005
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-4-76-027 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ERAD  EPA 600/4-76-027 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 10/29/2012
ESAD  EPA 600-4-76-027 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-255 629 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation iv, 38 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Results of 14 experiments on the air-forage-cow-milk transfer of iodine-131 are summarized and used to develop prediction models for dose to the thyroids of infants. The models are based on data from various types of nuclear tests together with data from controlled experiments using contaminating aerosols. This provides a realistic foundation for the predictions and for adjusting the predictions to correct for some types of forage. Equations developed from these studies can be used to predict within a factor of 2 the infinite dose to a 2-gram thyroid from a single contaminating event where cows continue to ingest contaminated forage and the subject drinks 0.7 liters of milk per day. This dose, in rads, is equal to 0.37 times the peak exposure rate measured 1 meter above ground, or 0.07 times the integrated air concentration. For wet deposition, it is suggested that the predicted doses be increased by a factor of 10. An equation for pre-test prediction is also developed. Short-lived radioiodines and inhalation during effluent passage have a definite effect on the predicted doses.
Notes
"June 1976." Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-38).