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Application of the Two-Dosimeter Algorithm for Effective Dose Evaluations based on ICRP Publication 103  

Kim, Hee-Geun (KHNP Central Research Institute)
Kong, Tae-Young (KHNP Central Research Institute)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.36, no.3, 2011 , pp. 154-159 More about this Journal
Abstract
To evaluate the radiation exposure of workers participating in task where high radiation exposure is expected, two-dosimeter is typically provided radiation workers, one on the chest and the other on the back, at Korean nuclear power plants (NPPs). In a previous study, the NCRP (55:50) algorithm was selected as the optimal two-dosimeter algorithm (TDA) with various field tests and this TDA has been applied to all Korean NPPs since 2006. In 2007, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) published the new ICRP recommendation, ICRP 103, which provides the revised weighting factors for both radiation and tissues and the new reference phantom. In this study, the applicability of current NCRP (55:50) algorithm at Korean NPPs for ICRP 103 was analyzed. As a result, it was found that the NCRP (55:50) algorithm is still effective to estimate the effective dose of workers under ICRP 103.
Keywords
Two-dosimeter algorithm; Effective dose; NCRP (55:50) algorithm; ICRP 103;
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