Pages: 40 - 46

Authors: Jagos J. RAIČEVIĆ, Milan MERKLE, Joachim EHRHARDT, and Marko M. NINKOVIĆ

Abstract

In this paper a new approach for calculation of the years of life lost per excess death due to stochastic health effects is applied to external exposure pathways. The short-term external exposures are due to the passage of radioactive cloud and due to the skin and clothes contamination. The long-term external exposure is the one from the radioactive material deposited on the ground (ground shine). Three nuclides, ¹³¹I, ¹³⁷Cs, and ²³⁹Pu, and with the extremely wide range of half-life are considered in order to examine their possible influence on the calculated values of years of life lost. For each of these nuclides, the number of years of life lost has been found as a decreasing function of the age at the exposure and presented graphically in this paper. For protracted exposures, the fully averaged number of years of life lost is negative correlated with the nuclide's half-life. On the other hand, the short-term external exposures do not depend on the nuclide's half-life. In addition, a weak years of life lost dependence of the dose has been commented.

Key words: years of life lost, radiation risk, stochastic health effects, external radiation exposures

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