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THE GERMAN DOSE RATE MONITORING NETWORK AND IMPLEMENTED DATA HARMONIZATION TECHNIQUES
- Source :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Abstract
- Environmental radiation monitoring networks have been established in Europe and world-wide for the purpose of protecting population and environment against ionizing radiation. Some of these networks had been established during the cold war period and were improved after the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Today, the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) operates an early warning network with roughly 1800 ambient dose equivalent rate (ADER) stations equally distributed over the German territory. The hardware and software of all network components are developed in-house allowing the continuous optimization of all relevant components. A probe characterization and quality assurance and control program are in place. Operational and technical aspects of the network and data harmonization techniques are described. The latter allows for calculating of the terrestrial and net ADER combined with uncertainties mainly from site specific effects. Harmonized data are finally used as input to the German emergency management system and the European radiological data exchange platform.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Quality management
Computer science
Population
Radiation Dosage
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
German
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Radiation Protection
Radiation Monitoring
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
education
education.field_of_study
Radiation
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Warning system
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Medicine
language.human_language
Europe
Data exchange
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
language
Systems engineering
Radiation monitoring
Radiation protection
business
Quality assurance
Software
Radioactive Pollutants
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17423406 and 01448420
- Volume :
- 183
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiation Protection Dosimetry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c435502adfa8ad3f54c4684a36c5c253