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RECONSTRUCTIVE DOSIMETRY AND RADIATION DOSE EVALUATION OF WORKERS AND PUBLIC DUE TO A BRAZILIAN RADIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT IN INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY

Authors:
Camila Moreira Araujo de Lima (COPPE-UFRJ - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO - Programa de Engenharia Nuclear) ; Tadeu Augusto de Almeida Silva (IRD/CNEN - Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry) ; John Graham Hunt (IRD/CNEN - Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry) ; Francisco Cesar Augusto da Silva (IRD/CNEN - Institute of Radiation Protection and Dosimetry)

Abstract:

Radiological accidents occur mainly in the planned exposure situations recognized as high radiological risk and which are classified by the IAEA as Categories 1 and 2: radiotherapy, industrial irradiators, and industrial radiography. In Brazil, 5 important cases in industrial gamma radiography occurred from 1985 to 2018, involving 7 radiation workers and 19 members of the public. The accidents caused localized radiation lesions on the hands and fingers. One of these accidents was fully investigated and reconstructed and is the focus of this paper. In this accident, a 3.28 TBq Ir-192 radioactive source was left unshielded for 9 hours in an NDT company parking lot, and many radiation workers, employees, and the public, including teachers of a primary school, were exposed. The radioactive source was also directly handled by a security worker for about 1.5 min causing severe radiation injuries in the hand and fingers. This paper presents radiation dose estimates for all accidentally exposed individuals. Four scenarios were considered, and three internationally recognized and updated reconstructive dosimetry techniques were used, named, Brazilian Visual Monte Carlo Dose Calculation (VMC), Virtual Environment for Radiological and Nuclear Accidents Simulation (AVSAR), and RADPRO Calculator®. The main radiation doses estimated by VMC were the absorbed dose of 34 Gy for the security worker’s finger and his effective dose of 91 mSv; effective doses from 43 to 160 mSv for radiation workers and NDT employees; and effective doses of 9 mSv for teachers in the schoolyard.

Keywords:
 Dose assessment, Industrial gamma radiography, Monte Carlo method, Radiological accidents, Reconstructive dosimetry