The requirement for energy imparted in radiation protection practice

International Journal of Low Radiation

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 452-462

  Bond, Victor P ^a   Sondhaus, Charles A ^a   Couch, Lezlie A ^a   Brooks, Antone L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

energy imparted and radiation protection

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EID: 79951609421     PISSN: 14776545     EISSN: 17419190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLR.2005.007914     Document Type: Article

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24. Strictly speaking ‘dose equivalent’ should be used here instead of ‘absorbed dose’ because the radiations from the nuclear weapons used in Japan contained some fast neutrons at the distances of interest. It is not employed here for the following reasons: as noted by Kellerer (2000), the magnitude of the contribution of fast neutrons has long been debated, and remains uncertain. Also, the same phenomena noted in this paper have been observed in many other systems irradiated with X or gamma radiations alone. Furthermore, if equal quantities of imparted energy, but of different hit size are used for irradiation, it is logical that a larger effect per fast neutron would be substantially offset by a smaller number of hits from the neutrons. Accordingly, the simpler quantity, absorbed dose is used here.