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This book consists of two parts. The first part consists of two chapters; Chapters 1. Health surveillance; and Chapter 2. The role of the occupational physician in the workplace. The second part consists of three chapters; Chapter 1. Basic data; Chapter 2. Radiological damage; and Chapter 3. Radiation protection system. (Jml)
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This book consist : Introduction; General approach to hazard assessment; Information and investigations necessary (Database); Hazard determination on the basis of extreme values; and Hazard determination for rare meteorological phenomena. (Jml)
A serious radiological accident occured in Samut Prakarn, Thailand, in late January and early February 2000 when a disused 60Co teletherapy head was partially dismantled, taken from an unsecured storage location and sold as scrap metal. Individuals who took the housing apart and later transported the device to a junkyard were exposed to radiation from the source. At the junkyard the device was …
On 24 July 1996 a serious accident occured at the Gilan combined cycle fossil fuel power plant in the Islamic Republic of Iran, when a worker who was moving thermal insulation materials around the plant noticed a shiny, pencil sized metal object lying in a trench and put it in his pocket. He was unaware that the metal object was an unshielded 185 GBq 192Ir source used for industrial radiography…
The accident at an industrial irradiation facility in San Salvador was quite different from that in Goiania, being limited to the external irradiation of workers. However, it did result in a fatality, as had similar accidents in Italy in 1975 and in Norway in 1982. There are more than 160 industrial irradiation facilities around the world that are as large as or larger than the one in San Salva…