Icrp Publication 144: Dose Coefficients for External Exposures to Environmental Sources

This publication presents radionuclide-specific organ and effective dose-rate coefficients for members of the public resulting from environmental external exposures to radionuclide emissions of both photons and electrons, calculated using computational phantoms representing the ICRP reference newborn, 1-year-old, 5-year-old, 10-year-old, 15-year-old, and adult males and females. Environmental radiation fields of monoenergetic photon and electron sources were firstly computed using the Monte Carlo radiation transport code PHITS for source geometries representing environmental radionuclide exposures including planar sources on and within the ground at different depths (representing radionuclide ground contamination from fall-out or naturally occurring terrestrial sources), volumetric sources in air (representing a radioactive cloud), and uniformly distributed sources in simulated contaminated water.

Author: Icrp

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Publication Date: Jun 01, 2020

Number of Pages: 148 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1529741254

ISBN-13: 9781529741254