Countrywide monitoring of absorbed dose rate in air due to outdoor natural gamma radiation in India-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Countrywide monitoring of absorbed dose rate in air due to outdoor natural gamma radiation in India

Published:2023-06-26 Issue:12 Volume:199 Page:1336-1350
ISSN:0144-8420
Container-title:Radiation Protection Dosimetry
language:en
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Author:

Mitra Pratip¹^ORCID,Mishra Manish K¹,Reddy Gade Priyanka¹,Srivastava Saurabh¹²^ORCID,Salunkhe Sandip S¹,Kumari Anisha¹,Gavas Sanjay G¹,Ninawe Pruthviraj R¹,Thekkinkattil Mukundan¹,Garg Saurabh¹,Kumar Aerattukkara Vinod¹²

Affiliation:

1. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Division, , Mumbai 400085 , India

2. Homi Bhabha National Institute , Mumbai 400094 , India

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Funder

Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,General Medicine,Radiation,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

Link

https://academic.oup.com/rpd/article-pdf/199/12/1336/50926083/ncad185.pdf

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