Uncertainty in NCRP Screening Models Relating to Atmospheric Transport, Deposition, and Uptake by HumansAn evaluation of the Council's screening techniques for determining compliance with environmental standards. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Food Chain Transport | 16 |
Human Dietary Habits and Usage Factors | 27 |
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adults air concentration annual average assumed assumptions atmospheric dispersion model Atmospheric Transport bias Bq mē Chernobyl accident Chernobyl fallout data cloud immersion complex terrain conservatism conservative contamination Council on Radiation deposition velocity diffusion dispersion parameters dose factors dose limits doses per unit downwind distance Effective dose Elevated releases estimated exposure pathways external dose external irradiation food chain Gaussian plume model geometric standard deviation ground deposition ground-level ICRP indoor inhalation isolated point isolated point source Jacob locations Loviisa Meckbach mixing height mixing layer NCRP Commentary NCRP screening model Oak Ridge order of magnitude outdoors overestimation percent physical modeling potential Protection and Measurements Quad Cities Radiation Protection radioactive radioactive decay radionuclides receptor recommended release height release point resuspension screening calculations Shielding factors soil ingestion stability class Table transfer of 137Cs uncertainty associated underestimation underprediction UNSCEAR uptake usage factors vegetation wet deposition Whicker wind speed