Topographical classification of dose distributions: implications for control for worker exposure.

This paper deals with classification of dose distributions of nuclear workers based on antikurtosis (Q) and entropy coefficients (K) and their relationship presented in QK-diagrams. It is shown that determination of the most appropriate distribution to adopt, for a specific data set of a wide range of input data, requires building and analysing QK-diagrams for distributions of logarithms of individual doses. Actual dose distributions for emergency and occupational exposure situations were then considered, as well as doses for one day of work during clean-up and routine activities.

Methods of minimising doses incurred by external exposure while moving in radiation hazardous areas.

Radiation doses received by workers during their movement within areas contaminated as a result of events and activities, leading to emergency or existing exposure situations, may provide a substantial contribution to total external exposure during remediation work. This paper describes an approach to minimise worker external exposure in these circumstances, based on graph theory. The paper describes several tasks, including: searching for a route with the lowest dose, searching for an optimal bypass with a given set of control points and searching for the optimal road network coverage.

Local Radiolesion in X-Ray Inspection Specialists.

As a result of some deviations in the installation of the X-ray inspection plant 'Extravolt-225/1600' two workers of an X-ray inspection laboratory were exposed to the radiation in a dose enough to cause an acute local radiolesions (LRs). The first patient was diagnosed with an acute LR of the hands of severe and extremely severe degree. The second patient was diagnosed with a mild LR of her right hand.