Springer, 2015. — 456 p. This book was assembled by the interdisciplinary team that organized the 2011 Advanced Summer School of Nuclear Engineering and Management with Social- Scientific Literacy held in August 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley. This was about 5 months after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident in Japan. The team initially intended to...
American Society for Testing and Materials. Reapproved edition, 2005.- 9 p. This guide briefly describes the state-of-the-art of radiation monitors for detecting special nuclear material (SNM) in order to establish the context in which to write performance standards for the monitors. This guide extracts information from technical documentation to provide information for...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2010.- 16 p. This test method covers the transmission-corrected nondestructive assay (NDA) of gamma-ray emitting special nuclear materials (SNMs), most commonly 235U, 239Pu, and 241Am, in low-density scrap or waste, packaged in cylindrical containers. The method can also be applied to NDA of other gamma-emitting nuclides including...
American Society for Testing and Materials. Reapproved edition - 2005.- 16 p. These test methods cover procedures for the chemical, mass spectrometric, and spectrochemical analysis of nuclear-grade uranium dioxide powders and pellets to determine compliance with specifications. Referenced Documents ASTM Standards: C753 Specification for Nuclear-Grade, Sinterable Uranium Dioxide...
American Society for Testing and Materials, 2004.- 36 p. These test methods cover procedures for subsampling and for chemical, mass spectrometric, spectrochemical, nuclear, and radiochemical analysis of uranium hexafluoride (UF6). Most of these test methods are in routine use to determine conformance to UF6 specifications in the Enrichment and Conversion Facilities. Referenced...
American Society for Testing and Materials, 2004.- 24 p. These test methods cover procedures for the chemical, mass spectrometric, and spectrochemical analysis of nuclear-grade boron carbide powder and pellets to determine compliance with specifications. Referenced Documents ASTM Standards: C750 Specification for Nuclear-Grade Boron Carbide Powder C751 Specification for...
American Society for Testing and Materials, 2013.- 5 p. This terminology standard contains terms, definitions, descriptions of terms, nomenclature, and explanations of acro-nyms and symbols specifically associated with standards under the jurisdiction of Committee C26 on Nuclear Fuel Cycle. This terminology may also be applicable to documents not under the jurisdiction of...
American Society for Testing and Materials, 2017.- 4 p. This practice covers the sampling of surface soil for the purpose of obtaining a sample representative of a particular area for subsequent Chemical analysis of selected radionuclides. This practice describes one acceptable approach to collect soil samples for radiochemical analysis. Referenced Documents ASTM Standards:...
American Society for Testing and Materials, 2017.- 3 p. This practice covers the preparation of surface soil samples collected for analysis of radionuclide constituents, particularly uranium and plutonium. This practice describes one acceptable approach to the preparation of soil samples for radiochemical analysis. Referenced Documents ASTM Standards: C859 Terminology Relating...
American Society for Testing and Materials. Reapproved edition, 2014.- 26 p. This document provides practical guidance on the selection and optimization of sample designs in waste management sampling activities, within the context of the requirements established by the data quality objectives or other planning process. This document (1) provides guidance for selection of...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2017.- 15 p. This guide covers the context of groundwater monitoring at waste disposal facilities. Regulations have required statistical methods as the basis for investigating potential environmental impact due to waste disposal facility operation. Owner/operators must typically perform a statistical analysis on a quarterly or...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2017.- 3 p. This practice addresses sampling of Organic compounds (i.e., PCBs, dioxins, many Pesticides and similar compounds) from smooth nonporous surfaces using a solvent-wetted wipe sampling method. Samples are collected in a manner that permits the solvent extraction of the Organic compound(s) of interest from the wipes and...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2016.- 6 p. This test method describes a solid phase extraction (SPE) procedure to separate 99Tc from environmental water (non-process-related or effluent water samples). Technetium-99 beta activity is measured by liquid scintillation spectrometry. This test method is designed to measure 99Tc in the range of approximately 0.037 Bq/L...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 25 p. This practice covers consensus criteria for the calibration and quality control of nuclear instruments. This practice is provided for establishing appropriate quality control parameters at instrument startup, calibration of nuclear counting instruments and the continuing monitoring of quality control parameters....
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2017.- 13 p. This test method covers the measurement of gross alpha- and beta- activity concentrations in a homogeneous water sample. It is applicable to alpha emitters with activity concentration levels above 0.11 Bq/L and beta emitters with activity concentration levels above 0.15 Bq/L. This test method is not applicable to samples...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 8 p. The objective of this guide is to provide useful information for the interpretation of radiological instrument responses in the event of a radiological incident or emergency. For the purposes of this guide, a radiological incident or emergency is defined as those events that follow the indication of the presence of...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 4 p. This guide provides a rapid procedure by which vegetation samples may be screened for surface contamination of radioactive strontium (89Sr and 90Sr, collectively referred to as radiostrontium) following an airborne radioactive dispersal event. It provides a conservative estimate of radiostrontium deposition that can be...
American Society for Testing and Materials. Reapproved edition, 2015.- 8 p. This test method covers the determination of radioactive 210Pb in environmental water samples (for example, drinking, non-process and effluent waters) in the range of 37 mBq/L or greater. The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are provided for...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2012.- 7 p. This practice covers the quantification of radionuclides in environmental media (e.g., water, soil, vegetation, food) by means of simple preparation and counting with a high-resolution gamma ray detector. Because the practice is designed for rapid analysis, extensive efforts to ensure homogeneity or ideal sample counting...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2016.- 4 p. The purpose of the sample may be to estimate properties of a larger population, such as a lot, pile or shipment, the percentage of some constituent, the fraction of the items that fail to meet (or meet) a specified requirement, the average characteristic or quality of an item, the total weight of the shipment, or the...
American Society for Testing and Materials. 2010.- 6 p. This guide applies to decommissioning plans for any nuclear facility whose operation was (is) governed by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or Agreement State license, or under U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) orders. The guide applies to the preparation and content of the decommissioning plan document itself. The...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2017.- 12 p. This terminology generally covers terms that apply to radiation measurements and dosimetry associated with energy deposition and radiation effects, or damage, in materials caused by interactions by high-energy radiation fields. The common radiation fields considered are X-rays, gamma rays, electrons, alpha particles,...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 9 p. The purpose of this practice is to present concepts necessary to the understanding of the terms “precision” and “bias” as used in quantitative test methods. This practice also describes methods of expressing precision and bias and, in a final section, gives examples of how statements on precision and bias may be written...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2016.- 11 p. This practice covers outlying observations in samples and how to test the statistical significance of them. An outlying observation, or outlier, is one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs. In this connection, the following two alternatives are of interest: (i) an outlying...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2017.- 21 p. These methods cover general procedures for the calibration of radiation detectors and the analysis of radionuclides. For each individual radionuclide, one or more of these methods may apply. These methods are concerned only with specific radionuclide measurements. The chemical and physical properties of the radionuclides...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2008.- 28 p. This standard provides recommendations on the selection and use of portable instrumentation that is responsive to levels of radiation that are close to natural background. These instruments are employed to detect the presence of residual radioactivity that is at, or below, the criteria for release from further regulatory...
American Society for Testing and Materials - 2014.- 24 p. This guide is an organized collection of information and series of options for industry, regulators, auditors, consultants and the public, intended to measure compliance with environmental performance standards against established benchmarks. It focuses on compliance with air, water, waste prevention, waste management,...
American Society for Testing and Materials. Reapproved edition, 2017.- 10 p. A term in this standard which lists an attribution to an E11 technical standard indicates that the standard is normative for that term. Any changes in the term definition in the normative standard will be editorially changed in this standard. Any terms added to an E11 standard will be editorially added...
Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2014. 766 p., ISBN: 978-92-0-143810-2 This handbook comprehensively covers the physics of nuclear medicine. It is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical physics. It will also serve as a resource for interested readers from other disciplines, for example, clinicians, radiochemists and medical technologists who...
Kyiv: DIA, 2016- 524 p. Thirty years after Chernobyl (Chornobyl) and a subsequent organization of the National Research Center for Radiation Medicine were the time of a quick growth of radiation biology and medicine in Ukraine. In a short time period, a research infrastructure was created and staff had gained scientific skills in a new research area of a high demand from a...
N.Y.: Technical dictionaries Co. 1957 – 317 p. Experience has shown that three reliable bilingual dictionaries are needed for a high-quality translation of a modern special technical text: a general language dictionary, a polytechnical dictionary, and a special dictionary. This Atomic Dictionary belongs in the latter class. It has been prepared for the English-speaking...
N.Y.: Technical dictionaries Co. 1957 – 317 p. Experience has shown that three reliable bilingual dictionaries are needed for a high-quality translation of a modern special technical text: a general language dictionary, a polytechnical dictionary, and a special dictionary. This Atomic Dictionary belongs in the latter class. It has been prepared for the English-speaking...
ICRP Publication 118. Elsevier, 2012. - 322 p. The aim of this report is to review the tissue and health effects of ionising radiation, with particular reference to their implications for dose limits in radiation protection, and for assessing health risks after accidental or therapeutic exposure. The report was prepared by a Task Group of ICRP Committee 1 under the following...
Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2014, 682 p, ISBN–92–131010–1. This handbook is intended to provide the basis for the education of medical physicists initiating their university studies in the field of diagnostic radiology. This has been achieved with the contributions of authors and reviewers from different countries. The chapters include a broad coverage of topics...
NCRP Report № 136 - NCRP, 2001. - 297 p This Report presents an evaluation of the existing data on the dose-response relationships and current understanding of the health effects of low doses of ionizing radiation. The evaluation was prompted by the need to reassess the common use, for radiation protection purposes, of the linear-nonthreshold dose-response hypothesis in the...
NCRP Report № 150 - NCRP, 2005. - 278 p. This Report reviews the scientific issues associated with the extrapolation of radiation-induced cancer risks from nonhuman experimental systems to humans. The basic principles of radiation effects at the molecular and cellular level are examined with emphasis on comparisons among various species including humans. These comparisons among...
Springer, 2016. — 122 p. The book provides a proper analysis of causes and consequences of severe nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island NPP (USA, 1979), Chernobyl NPP (USSR, 1986) and Fukushima Daiichi NPP (Japan, 2011). How Do Nuclear Reactors Work? Nuclear Basics. Why Pressurized Water? The Origins of the PWR. Three Mile Island. The TMI Accident. Russian Reactor Design...
93rd Edition (DVD Version 2013), CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL. The 93rd Edition of the Handbook includes new tables, major updates and expansions. The results of the IUPAC 2009 biennial review of atomic-weight determinations have been made to the atomic weights in the Periodic Table. Other significant updates and expansions of tables for the 93rd Edition include...
Second Edition. — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA- 2005. — 478 p.
Basic Concepts fills the need for an introduction to the fundamental ideas of modem statistics that was mathematically rigorous but did not require calculus. This was achieved by restricting attention to discrete situations. The book was translated into Italian, Hebrew, Danish,...
The 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 103, Ann ICRP Vol. 37 No. 2-4 (2007). These revised Recommendations for a System of Radiological Protection formally replace the Commission’s previous, 1990, Recommendations; and update, consolidate, and develop the additional guidance on the control of exposure from radiation...
Annals of ICRP 2009 №39(6), Elsevier, 2009. - 111 p. The Commission has based its approach to environmental protection on the use of a set of Reference Animals and Plants (RAPs) as the basis for relating exposure to dose, and dose to radiation effects, for different types of animals and plants in an internally consistent manner. The results of this approach have, to date,...
Annals of ICRP 2010 №40(1). Elsevier, 2010. - 64 p. This Task Group report on lung cancer risk from radon provides current information on health risks from radon by reviewing recent epidemiological studies on residential and occupational exposures. An important conclusion is that the detriment-adjusted nominal risk coefficient for exposure to radon should now be taken to be...
ICRP Publication 116 CD. Data Base of Conversion Coefficients for Radiological Protection Quantities for External Radiation Exposures. ICRP, 2010 This CD-ROM presents reference conversion coefficients for effective dose and organ absorbed doses, for various types of external exposures, calculated following the 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological...
ICRP Publication 116. Conversion Coefficients for Radiological Protection Quantities for External Radiation Exposures. Annals of ICRP v. 40 N (2-5) 2010 This report gives fluence to dose conversion coefficients for both effective dose and organ absorbed doses for various types of external exposures, consistent with the 2007 Recommendations of the ICRP (ICRP Publication 103,...
Annals of ICRP v. 40 No 6, Elsiver, 2010. 102 p. An increasing number of medical specialists are using fluoroscopy outside imaging departments, but there has been general neglect of radiological protection coverage of fluoroscopy machines used outside imaging departments. Lack of radiological protection training of those working with fluoroscopy outside imaging departments can...
Annals of ICRP v. 42 No 4, Elsiver, 2013. 130 p. This report is a compilation of dose coefficients for intakes of radionuclides by workers and members of the public, and conversion coefficients for use in occupational radiological protection against external radiation from Publications 68, 72, and 74. It serves as a comprehensive reference for dose coefficients based on the...
Annals of ICRP v. 24, No 1-3, Pergamon, 1994. 462 p. This report describes a revision of the model used in ICRP Publication 30 to calculate radiation doses to the respiratory tract of workers resulting from the intake of airborne radionuclides. This revision was motivated by the availability of increased knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the respiratory tract and of...
Annals of ICRP, v. 26, No 3/4, Pergamon, 1996. 205 p. This report summarises the work of a Joint Task Group on Dose-Related Quantities for Radiological Protection against External Radiation established in the latter part of 1991. This group was appointed by both the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the International Commission on Radiation Units...
Annals of the ICRP v. 31, No 1-3, Pergamon, 2001. Corrected Version, May 2002. 511 p The present report gives dose coefficients for the offspring (embryo, fetus, and newborn child) of female members of the public and female workers following intakes of selected radioisotopes of the 31 elements for which age-dependent biokinetic models are given in Publications 56, 67, 69, and...
Annals of ICRP v. 34 No. 3-4, Elsiver, 2004. 279 p. In the present report, ICRP provides information on radiation doses to the infant due to intakes of radionuclides in maternal milk. As in Publication 88 on doses to the embryo and fetus following intakes of radionuclides by the mother, intakes by female members of the public and female workers are addressed. Acute and chronic...