Radiation exposure and disease questionnaires of early entrants after the Hiroshima bombing
Radiation exposure and disease questionnaires of early entrants after the Hiroshima bombing
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DOI:
10.1093/rpd/ncr370
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发表时间:
2012-03-01
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1
通讯作者:
Tanaka, Kenichi
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作者:
Imanaka, Tetsuji;Endo, Satoru;Tanaka, Kenichi
It is popularly known that people who entered into the ground-zero area shortly after the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered from various syndromes similar to acute radiation effects. External exposures from neutron-induced radionuclides in soil have recently been reassessed based on DS02 calculations as functions of both distance from the hypocentres and elapsed time after the explosions. Significant exposure due to induced radiation can be determined for those who entered the area within 1000 m from the hypocentres shortly after the bombing. Although it was impossible to track the action of each of the survivors over the days or weeks following the bombings in order to make reliable dose estimates for their exposures to soil activation or fallout, four individuals among those early entrants were investigated here to describe useful information of what happened shortly after the bombing.