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Radiation dose calculation in the human body for building materials and soil exposure pathways

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2005

F. Öner  and
N. T. Okumusoglu
F. Öner
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, Ondokuz Mayls Üniversity, Amasya, Turkey.
N. T. Okumusoglu
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science, Ondokuz Mayls Üniversity, Kurupelit, Samsun, Turkey.
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Abstract

In the present work, external annual radiation doses in human body due to presence of 226Ra, 232Th, 238U and 40K in conventional building materials and by-products from coal power plants which are being used or have the potential for use in buildings and soil in India were calculated in the human body by using GENII radiation dose calculation computer programme (Napier et al., 1988). In the calculations, human beings receive the most radiation dose from building materials from 1.0 × 10-6 Sv from 40K and the least from 2.3 × 10-11 Sv from 232Th. It has been calculated that human beings receive total 6.3 × 10$^{-7} \pm$ 2 × 10-7 Sv radiation dose exposure from soil. Data obtained are acceptable in comparison with radiation doses attributable to building materials in OECD countries.

Keywords

computer calculationsradionuclidedose
Type
Research Article
Information
Radioprotection , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 329 - 332
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2001

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