• Nuclear industry
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• v.15 no.9 s.151
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• pp.44-50
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• 1995

옛소련 및 러시아의 방사성폐기물 동해투기와 관련하여 당사국인 한국$\cdot$러시아$\cdot$일본 등 3국은 공동조사단을 구성하여, 지난해 3월 18일$\~$4월 16일까지 30일 동안 방사성폐기물 투기해역의 7개 정점에 대한 방사능오염도를 조사했다. 조사결과 투기해역의 해수$\cdot$해저퇴적물$\cdot$해양생물 중의 $^{137}Cs, ^{90}Sr, ^{239, 240}Pu$ 함량은 방사능낙진 정도의 수준으로 나타나 아직까지는 뚜렷한 방사능오염이 없는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 다음은 그 조사결과의 내용이다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2016

Background: The objective of this study was to investigate Korean people's awareness about impact of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan and radioactive contamination caused by it. Materials and Methods: The respondents of the survey were 600 adults who resided in the Seoul metropolitan area. Results and discussion: The survey results show that the majority of respondents were concerned about impact of radiation leakage that might have an effect on our environment. They were worried about radioactive contamination of foodstuffs, particularly fishery products and preferred to acquire information through TV(49.8%) or the Internet(31.3%). Meanwhile, respondents mentioned that the information on the Fukushima nuclear accident and radioactive contamination had not been sufficient and they didn't know well about the follow-up measures of the government on the accident. Most respondents answered that information on radioactive contamination levels and safety of foods and environment was most needed. Conclusion: The results of this study could be useful to enhance awareness on radioactivity and improve risk communication on nuclear power plant accidents.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.373-381
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• 2022

The Fukushima nuclear power plant water spill caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 raised fears about radiation exposure through consumption of radioactively contaminated seafood. The Korean government banned importing agricultural and fishery products from eight prefectures near Fukushima, but the related news were continuously reported partly due to the WTO dispute with Japan, which seems to have aggravated consumers' anxiety about seafood. In this study, data on daily purchases of products for three years (2018-2020) were collected and the effect of Japanese radiation-related news on domestic consumers' purchases of seafood was estimated using a polynomial lag distributed model. As a result of the analysis, it was found that radiation-related news had a statistically significant negative effect on the purchase of seafood on the 5th and 6th days after exposure to consumers through the media. It captures the carryover effect in which consumers' perceptions are reflected in the purchase of seafood after exposure to related news.

• 한국상하수도협회지
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• s.25
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• pp.44-45
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• 2009

먹는 물의 안전성에 대한 요구가 증대하고 수도 보급률이 확대되었는데도 아직도 많은 사람들은 유해성이 확인되지 않은 지하수를 이용하고 있다. 안전하다고 판정된 지하수라도 현재 국내 수질기준으로는 지하수의 건강상 안전성을 완벽하게 보장할 수가 없다. 그 이유는 지하수가 지표수를이용해 생산되는 수돗물과는 다른 특성이 있기 때문인데, 그 주요한 특징 중의 하나가 바로 방사능이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.701-707
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• 2023

In PET/CT, the injection volume of ¹⁸F-FDG directly affects the SUV(standard uptake value), which can affect the reading results. Therefore, it is important to inject the correct dose value of ¹⁸F-FDG. In this study, we performed the correlation between the residual radioactivity remaining in the syringe and catheter insertion device according to the number of flushing during ¹⁸F-FDG injection. CRC-25R dose calibrator, catheter insertion devices, 3 cc syringes and 50 cc physiological saline were used in this study, and the results were statistically analyzed. As a result, the total residual radioactivity of the syringe and catheter insertion device remained the highest at 5.84% after two flushing, and the least remained at 1.49% after five flushing. The correlation analysis results showed that the number of flushing had a negative correlation with the residual radioactivity of the syringe at -0.436 and the catheter insertion device at -0.300. As a result of one-way distributed analysis of the average according to the number of flushing, the syringe showed a significant decrease at 4 times, and the catheter insertion device showed a significant decrease at 5 times. However, considering that an average of 0.8% remains in the case of catheter insertion devices, four time flushing seems to be the most appropriate.

• Advanced Industrial SCIence
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

Recently, it is increasing that a issue of concern about radiation exposure. It affects soil, water, air, crops, etc., and in the long term, environmental pollution and food pollution occur, and it is considered to cause social problems and economic damage. Radiation exposure causes diseases and health problems, but as a method for diagnosing diseases, nuclear medicine tests such as X-ray imaging, CT, and PET-CT are conducted, and radiation isotopes are exposed for the purpose of cancer treatment. A Hungarian case study on radiation in water, particularly drinking water, following the release of radioactive waste from Fukushima, and an examination of the Larsemann Hills area in Antarctica, found that it was within the prescribed radioactivity limits of drinking water recommended by the World Health Organization. We looked at radioprotective agents, focusing on DNA damage, cell and organ damage, and cancer, and also investigated various literatures on ACE inhibitors, antioxidants, and natural substances among restoration materials. Although exposed to radiation in everyday life, the reason why it can be safe is probably because there is a radiation protection material and a recovery material for radiation exposure, so we are trying to find possible materials.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.551-551
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• 2017

우리나라와 동아시아는 경제 성장에 따른 전력수요가 크게 증가하였으며, 증가하는 대부분의 전력수요를 원자력으로 대체하고자 원전을 통한 전력생산 비중을 증가시키고 있다. 현재 중국은 13기의 원전을 가동 중이며, 동남 해안지대에 집중되어 있다. 또한, 건설 중인 원전은 27기로 전세계에서 건설 중인 원전의 41%를 차지한다. 원전의 증가에 따른 방사능 누출에 대한 위험성 역시 증가되고 있는 실정이다. 한국원자력안전기술원에서 중국 중서부지역에서 방사능이 누출될 경우 방사성 물질이 한반도로 이동하는 모의 상황에 대한 시뮬레이션을 통해, 원전 사고 발생 시 사흘 만에 제주도를 포함한 대한민국 전역이 방사성 물질로 뒤덮이는 것으로 분석하였다. 중국에서 누출된 방사성물질은 편서풍을 타고 한반도로 이동하게 되며, 일부는 낙진으로 유역 또는 하천에 유입되고 일부는 동해를 지나 일본으로 이동 할 것이다. 그동안 중국에서의 방사능 누출사고를 통한 방사성물질의 국내유입에 의한 영향에 대한 연구가 부족한 것이 현실이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 중국 텐완에서 원전사고 발생시 국내 하천에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 분석하고자 환경다매체 모형을 이용하여 방사성물질(세슘, Cs-137)의 영향에 대한 모의를 진행하였다. 중국 텐완원전에서 방사성 Cs-137이 누출되어 춘천지역에 도달하였을 때의 대기중 농도 $5,650Bq/m^3$로 가정하여 모의 시나리오를 구성하였다. 모의 지역은 북한강 수계를 대상으로 하였으며, 7개의 중권역과 549.3 km의 하천이 포함되었다. 다매체 모형 모의를 통해 방사성물질 낙진으로 인한 Cs-137이 북한강 수계에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 북한강수계의 팔당댐 부근의 오염농도를 모의하였다. 우리나라의 원자력시설 방호 방재법에 따른 상수원 취수기준(먹는물)은 100 Bq/L로 되어있다. 본 연구의 시나리오 모의결과, 모의 1일차에서 45 Bq/L, 모의 8일차에는 먹는물 기준 100 Bq/L를 초과하여 최대 119.56 Bq/L로 오염되는 것으로 모의되었다. 따라서, 반감기가 큰 방사성물질을 유입으로 오염된 하천은 개선하기 위해서는 오랜 시간과 높은 처리비용이 발생되기 때문에 인접국 또는 국내의 방사능 누출로 인한 상수원 오염 발생에 대비한 초기/중 장기적인 대응책 마련이 필요한 시점이다.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.67-70
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• 2013

Purpose: Surge in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatic artery chemical embolization is one of the effective interventional procedures. The PET/CT examination plays an important role in determining the presence of residual cancer cells and metastasis, and prognosis after embolization. The other hand, the hepatic artery chemical embolization of embolic material used lipiodol produced artifacts in the PET/CT examination, and these artifacts results in quantitative evaluation influence. This study, the radioactivity density and the percentage error was evaluated by the extent of the impact of lipiodol in the image of PET/CT. Materials and Methods: 1994 NEMA Phantom was acquired for 2 minutes and 30 seconds per bed after the Teflon, water and lipiodol filled, and these three inserts into the enough to mix the rest behind radioactive injection with $20{\pm}10MBq$. Phantom reconfigure with the iterative reconstruction method the number of iterations for two times by law, a subset of 20 errors. We set up region of interest at each area of the Teflon, water, lipiodol, insert artifact occurs between regions, and background and it was calculated and compared by the radioactivity density(kBq/ml) and the% Difference. Results: Radioactivity density of the each region of interest area with the teflon, water, lipiodol, insert artifact occurs between regions, background activity was $0.09{\pm}0.04$, $0.40{\pm}0.17$, $1.55{\pm}0.75$, $2.5{\pm}1.09$, $2.65{\pm}1.16 kBq/ml$ (P <0.05) and it was statistically significant results. Percentage error of lipiodol in each area was 118%, compared to the water compared with the background activity 52%, compared with a teflon was 180% of the difference. Conclusion: We found that the error due to under the influence of the attenuation correction when PET/CT scans after lipiodol injection performed, and the radioactivity density is higher than compared to other implants, lower than background. Applying the nonattenuation correction images, and after hepatic artery chemical embolization who underwent PET/CT imaging so that the test should be take the consideration to the extent of the impact of lipiodol be.

• Health and Mission
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• s.23
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• pp.36-37
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• 2011

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.111-114
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• 2010

Purpose: There has been recent interest in the radioactivity uptake and image acquisition of radioactivity concentration. The degree of uptake is strongly affected by many factors containing $^{18}F$-FDG injection volume, tumor size and the density of blood glucose. Therefore, we investigated how radioactivity uptake in target influences 2D or 3D image analysis and elucidate radioactivity concentration that mediate this effect. This study will show the relationship between the radioactivity uptake and 2D,3D image acquisition on radioactivity concentration. Materials and Methods: We got image with 2D and 3D using 1994 NEMA PET phantom and GE Discovery(GE, U.S.A) STe 16 PET/CT setting the ratio of background and hot sphere's radioactivity concentration as being a standard of 1:2, 1:4, 1:8, 1:10, 1:20, and 1:30 respectively. And we set 10 minutes for CT attenuation correction and acquisition time. For the reconstruction method, we applied iteration method with twice of the iterative and twenty times subset to both 2D and 3D respectively. For analyzing the images, We set the same ROI at the center of hot sphere and the background radioactivity. We measured the radioactivity count of each part of hot sphere and background, and it was comparative analyzed. Results: The ratio of hot sphere's radioactivity density and the background radioactivity with setting ROI was 1:1.93, 1:3.86, 1:7.79, 1:8.04, 1:18.72, and 1:26.90 in 2D, and 1:1.95, 1:3.71, 1:7.10, 1:7.49, 1:15.10, and 1:23.24 in 3D. The differences of percentage were 3.50%, 3.47%, 8.12%, 8.02%, 10.58%, and 11.06% in 2D, the minimum differentiation was 3.47%, and the maximum one was 11.06%. In 3D, the difference of percentage was 3.66%, 4.80%, 8.38%, 23.92%, 23.86%, and 22.69%. Conclusion: The difference of accumulated concentrations is significantly increased following enhancement of radioactivity concentration. The change of radioactivity density in 2D image is affected by less than 3D. For those reasons, when patient is examined as follow up scan with changing the acquisition mode, scan should be conducted considering those things may affect to the quantitative analysis result and take into account these differences at reading.