Countrywide monitoring of absorbed dose rate in air due to outdoor natural gamma radiation in India.
Journal
Radiation protection dosimetry
ISSN: 1742-3406
Titre abrégé: Radiat Prot Dosimetry
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8109958
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
21 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023
Historique:
received:
26
03
2023
revised:
12
05
2023
accepted:
01
06
2023
medline:
24
7
2023
pubmed:
27
6
2023
entrez:
27
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The Indian Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network continuously monitors, throughout India, the absorbed dose rate in air due to outdoor natural gamma radiation, by using Geiger-Mueller detector-based standalone environmental radiation monitors. The network consists of 546 monitors spread across 91 monitoring locations distributed all over the country. In this paper, the countrywide long-term monitoring results are summarised. The measured mean dose rate of the monitoring locations followed a log-normal distribution and ranged from 50 to 535 nGy.h-1 with a median value of 91 nGy.h-1. Due to outdoor natural gamma radiation, the average annual effective dose was estimated to be 0.11 mSv.y-1.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37366153
pii: 7207793
doi: 10.1093/rpd/ncad185
doi:
Substances chimiques
Soil Pollutants, Radioactive
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1336-1350Subventions
Organisme : Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India
Informations de copyright
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