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Recommendations on Dose Coefficients for Assessing Doses From Accidental Radionuclide Releases to the Environment

Joint Working Group of Radiation Protection Bureau
Health Canada
1999

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Appendices

  • Appendix A: Working Group Membership
  • Appendix B: Considerations for Radionuclide Decay Chains and Example Calculations
  • Appendix C: Compilation of External Dose Rate Coefficients for Cloudshine and Groundshine

List of Figures

  • Figure 1: Frequency distributions of DCEL:DCMLfor cloudshine and groundshine dose coefficients
  • Figure 2: Ratio of DCEL :DCML versus DCEL

List of Tables

  • Table 1: Recommended breathing rates for the six ICRP age groups
  • Table 2: Recommended effective dose coefficients for internal and external exposures to selected radionuclides

Addendum: Typographical corrections

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