1. An international comparison of models and approaches for the estimation of the radiological exposure of non-human biota
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C. Yu, Tamara L. Yankovich, Jordi Vives i Batlle, Sunita Kamboj, David Copplestone, Ali Hosseini, Brenda J. Howard, G. Olyslaegers, J. Horyna, Tatiana G. Sazykina, J. L. Hingston, T. Nedveckaite, Justin Brown, Mikhail Balonov, Nicholas A. Beresford, Karine Beaugelin-Seiller, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology [Lancaster] (CEH), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, Environment Agency for England and Wales, Argonne National Laboratory [Lemont] (ANL), Centre d'Etude de l'Energie Nucléaire (SCK-CEN), SPA Typhoon, and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)
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Working group ,uranium 238 ,cobalt 60 ,Internationality ,uranium 234 ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,uranium 235 ,radiation exposure ,technetium 99m ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Toxicology ,thorium 232 ,0302 clinical medicine ,americium 241 ,Models ,thorium 234 ,International comparison ,comparative study ,Radiation ,tritium ,Environmental resource management ,article ,Biota ,Environmental exposure ,Biodiversity ,radiological protection ,unclassified drug ,Mobile telecommunication systems ,priority journal ,Radiological weapon ,Non human biota ,ionizing radiation ,carbon 14 ,strontium 90 ,biota ,Radiation Dosage ,Models, Biological ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,03 medical and health sciences ,radium 226 ,Radiation Monitoring ,Humans ,Computer Simulation ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Estimation ,nonhuman ,model ,cesium 137 ,business.industry ,International Atomic Energy Agency ,iodine 131 ,Reproducibility of Results ,Environmental Exposure ,Biological ,non-human biota ,13. Climate action ,plutonium 239 ,Environmental science ,business ,iodine 129 ,polonium ,radiation protection ,Relative Biological Effectiveness ,Animal cell culture - Abstract
Over the last decade a number of models and approaches have been developed for the estimation of the exposure of non-human biota to ionising radiations. In some countries these are now being used in regulatory assessments. However, to date there has been no attempt to compare the outputs of the different models used. This paper presents the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency's EMRAS Biota Working Group which compares the predictions of a number of such models in model-model and model-data inter-comparisons. © 2008 IAEA.
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- 2008