| Autor: |
Abdallah M A, Dawood, Eric T, Glover, Eric, Akortia, Mawutorli, Nyarku, Paul, Essel, Evelyn O, Sarfo, Mawuli E, Ameho, Emmanuel A, Aberikae |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Environmental monitoring and assessment. 194(4) |
| ISSN: |
1573-2959 |
| Popis: |
The Radioactive Waste Management Center (RWMC) of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) operates a licensed radioactive waste management facility known as the Centralized Radioactive Waste Management Facility (CRWMF). The Center undertakes environmental radiation monitoring in which indoor dose rates at various microenvironments, and nearby ambient environments of the facility are measured. A 2-year radiation dose data (i.e., 2017 and 2018) obtained from the monitoring exercise was used to determine whole-body exposure and cancer risk analysis for adult and child age groups. With the exception of the high dose area of the facility, observed doses in all microenvironments of the facility as well as the ambient environment were below the regulatory dose limits of 1 mSv/y and 20 mSv/y, set for radiation workers and the general public, respectively. Dose rate variation for the 2017 and 2018 datasets were not significant (p 0.05) at 95% confidence interval (CI). Cancer risks due to exposure to alpha, neutron, and gamma radiation sources for both adult and child age groups were above the global average value of 2.90 × 10 |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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