TY - JOUR
T1 - Radiological Health Risk Evalution of Radium Contaminated Land : a Real Life Implementation
AU - Paridaens, Johan
A2 - Vanmarcke, Hans
N1 - Score = 10
PY - 2005/1/25
Y1 - 2005/1/25
N2 - A plot of land, currently used for dairy farming, has been contaminated over the years with radium due to the operation of one of the world’s largest radium production plants. Within the framework of a global remediation approach for the plant surroundings, the land owner needed advice for a future destination of the land. Therefore, the radium contamination was accurately mapped, and on the basis of its severity a practically feasible subdivision of the land into four plots was proposed. For all four plots, the radiological risk was evaluated for the current type of land use and for possible alternative types. Hence a clear and useable advice could be formulated to the authorities reconciling public health, economic and practical issues.
AB - A plot of land, currently used for dairy farming, has been contaminated over the years with radium due to the operation of one of the world’s largest radium production plants. Within the framework of a global remediation approach for the plant surroundings, the land owner needed advice for a future destination of the land. Therefore, the radium contamination was accurately mapped, and on the basis of its severity a practically feasible subdivision of the land into four plots was proposed. For all four plots, the radiological risk was evaluated for the current type of land use and for possible alternative types. Hence a clear and useable advice could be formulated to the authorities reconciling public health, economic and practical issues.
KW - dairy farm
KW - health risk
KW - Radium
UR - http://ecm.sckcen.be/OTCS/llisapi.dll/open/ezp_27179
UR - http://knowledgecentre.sckcen.be/so2/bibref/2749
M3 - Article
SN - 0144-8420
VL - 113
SP - 195
EP - 203
JO - Radiation protection dosimetry
JF - Radiation protection dosimetry
IS - 2
ER -