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International Trends in Risk Management of Groundwater Radionuclides  

신동천 (연세대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
김예신 (연세대학교 환경공해연구소)
문지영 (연세대학교 환경공해연구소)
박화성 (연세대학교 환경공해연구소)
김진용 (연세대학교 환경공해연구소)
박선구 (국립환경연구원 물환경연구부)
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Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology / v.17, no.4, 2002 , pp. 273-284 More about this Journal
Abstract
At present, the health risks associated with the natural radionuclides of ground water have become a concern as potential social problems. However, there are no regulatory actions or control strategies for such risks. Therefore, we have investigated and discussed the risks and associated management strategies for radionuclides in other countries. US EPA has proposed MCL (300 pCi/L) and AMCL (4,000 pCi/L) for radon, and 30 ppb for uranium, 15 pCi/L for gross-alpha and 5 pCi/L for radium as final MCLs. Also, Canada, WHO and European countries have their inherent management levels. Finally, we suggested several criteria for setting guidelines in our countries including exposure related criteria such as geological distribution, occurrence, exposure probability distribution, exposure population and multimedia exposure assessment, acceptable risk, and cost -benefit analysis. The national-scale exposure and risk assessment, and economic analysis should be conducted for producing and aggregating the representative information on these criteria.
Keywords
Radon; Uranium; Ground water; Regulatory limit; Risk;
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