External Dose Reconstruction Under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

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• Personal Author:
  Merwin SE ; Smith MH ; Stewart DN ; Taulbee TD
• Description:
  42 CFR Part 82 prescribes methods for radiation dose reconstruction under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. A key element of the dose reconstruction process is the determination of external doses. Such doses may have been received from external exposure to photons, neutrons, or electrons; radiation sources that must be considered include sources within the facilities at which the energy employee worked, onsite ambient radiation, and occupational medical x-ray procedures. Information on radiation doses is obtained from personal monitoring device data, if available, or from other sources such as survey instrument data, co-worker data, or dose rate calculations based on source term data. "Organ-specific doses are calculated depending on cancer type, with appropriate corrections applied to account for the type and capability of the monitoring devices, the energy of the radiation, and the exposure geometry. Potential missed doses and uncertainties are two key factors that impact the reconstructed dose and the calculated probability of causation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Neoplasms Nuclear Power Plants Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Radiography Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Cancer Data-processing Dose-response Electron-radiation Emission-sources Environmental-factors Exposure-assessment Information-systems Job-analysis Medical-monitoring Neutron-radiation Nuclear-energy Nuclear-radiation Occupational-exposure Radiation-exposure Radiation-facilities Radiation-measurement Work-environment X-ray-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0017-9078
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary ; Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OCAS - Office of Compensation Analysis and Support
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  84
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032218
• Citation:
  Health Phys 2003 Jun; 84(Suppl):S212
• Contact Point Address:
  Dade Moeller and Associates, 1845 Terminal Drive, Richland, W A 99352
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  Dade Moeller and Associates, Richland, Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Health Physics
• Supplement:
  Suppl
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:72debff8e58f882669b7c437362b643abfc2a76cd96e6a3952f56b29f8a5bb4f1c6ec7cd6e7cb33b29babbb10b7fc65012c55eab96cddc21eb4fe64464375072
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186255/cdc_186255_DS1.pdf
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