Influence of the external and internal radioactive contamination of the body and the clothes on the results of the thyroidal 131I measurements conducted in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident—Part 2: Monte Carlo simulation of response of detectors near the thyroid

• Published in: Radiation and environmental biophysics Vol. 58; no. 2; pp. 215 - 226
• Main Authors: Kutsen, Semion, Khrutchinsky, Arkady, Minenko, Victor, Voillequé, Paul, Bouville, André, Drozdovitch, Vladimir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accidents; Biological and Medical Physics; Biophysics; Cancer; Cesium; Computer simulation; Contamination; Ecosystems; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Environmental monitoring; Environmental Physics; Epidemiology; Exposure; Gamma rays; Geographical variations; Irradiation; Lungs; Mathematical analysis; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; Nuclear power plants; Original Article; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Radiation detectors; Radioactive contamination; Radioactive decay; Radioactive fallout; Radioactive pollution; Radioactive wastes; Radioactivity; Radioisotopes; Thyroid; Thyroid cancer; γ Radiation; Chernobyl; I measurement; External contamination; Internal contamination; Thyroid

This paper describes the calculation of the response of the most common types of radiation detectors that were used within the first few weeks after the Chernobyl accident to determine the activity of 131 I in the thyroids of Belarusian subjects of an epidemiologic study of thyroid cancer. The radia...