This book describes the regulatory context for radiological protection as well as the conceptual and mathematical tools used to address issues that arise in complying with applicable legislation, regulations and guidance. The aim is to provide a single volume that is accessible to readers with a general scientific background, but that includes sufficient technical detail to make it useful to postgraduate students and radiation protection professionals in the early years of their career.
Key Features:
- A first comprehensive text that covers all aspects of radiological protection.
- Targeted at both post-graduate students and the practising radiological protection professional.
- Designed for day-to-day use in identifying methodologies and techniques appropriate to addressing issues in radiological protection as they arise.
- Written by authors with extensive experience of the topics covered by their chapters.
- Edited in detail by an individual with experience in various areas of radiological protection to ensure coherence and a corresponding technical level across chapters written by different authors.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors biography
List of contributors
1 Introduction and overview
2 The physics of ionising radiations and radioactive decay
3 Radiation interactions with matter
4 Radiation monitoring and instruments
5 The natural radiation environment and human modifications to that environment
6 Principles of internal dosimetry
7 Physical and mathematical phantoms for human dosimetry
8 General principles of mathematical models for the transport of radionuclides
9 Biokinetic models for humans
10 Models for the environmental transport of radionuclides
11 Radiochemical analysis
12 Effects of ionising radiations on the environment
13 International organisations influencing radiological protection and recommendations on protection against ionising radiation
14 Radiological protection in the nuclear industry
15 Radiological protection in radiology
16 Radiological protection in nuclear medicine
17 Radiological protection and naturally occurring radioactive materials
18 The transport of radioactive materials
19 Radiation accidents leading to large-scale releases of radionuclides to the environment
20 Radiation incidents and accidents involving localised sources of exposure
21 Emergency preparedness, planning and response
About the Author :
Dr. Michael Thorne has been involved in radiological protection since 1974. His early work was on internal dosimetry, but for the last 40 years he has been mainly involved in studies of the transport of radionuclides in the environment and in the management of solid radioactive wastes. He is a former Scientific Secretary to the ICRP, a former member of the UK National Dose Assessment Working Group, a former President of the Society for Radiological Protection, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radiological Protection, an advisor to the IAEA on uranium in the environment and former Chairman of the Steering Committee for the EU COMET project on radioecology.
