External Doses of Residents near Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

JUN TAKADA, MASAHARU HOSHI, TSUNETO NAGATOMO, MASAYOSHI YAMAMOTO, SATORU ENDO, TOSHIHIRO TAKATSUJI, ISAO YOSHIKAWA, BORIS I. GUSEV, ALEXANDER K. SAKERBAEV, NAILYA. J. TCHAIJUNUSOVA
1999 Journal of Radiation Research  
Semipalatinsk / Nuclear tests /TLD / Brick / External dose Accumulated external radiation doses of residents near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site of the former USSR are presented as a results of study by the thermoluminescence technique for bricks sampled at several settlements in 1995 and 1996. The external doses that we evaluated from exposed bricks were up to about 100 cGy for resident. The external doses at several points in the center of Semipalatinsk City ranged from a background
more » ... to 60 cGy, which was remarkably high compared with the previously reported values based on military data.
doi:10.1269/jrr.40.337 pmid:10748579 fatcat:z3jjr3kzhfhgpii4hxx77skhxm