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Radiation accidents over the last 60 years
Auteur | J.C.Nenot, IOP, Journal of Radiological Protection |
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Datum | augustus 2009 |
Classificatie | 6.01.1.10/13 (ONGELUKKEN - ALGEMEEN) |
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Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Radiation accidents over the last 60 years This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 2009 J. Radiol. Prot. 29 301 (http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/29/3/R01) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 213.84.17.197 The article was downloaded on 29/06/2010 at 12:43 Please note that terms and conditions apply. IOP PUBLISHING JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION J. Radiol. Prot. 29 (2009) 301–320 doi:10.1088/0952-4746/29/3/R01 REVIEW Radiation accidents over the last 60 years Jean-Claude N´enot1 Paris, France E-mail: jcnenot@free.fr Received 26 February 2009, accepted for publication 23 June 2009 Published 18 August 2009 Online at stacks.iop.org/JRP/29/301 Abstract Since the end of the Second World War, industrial and medical uses of radiation have been considerably increasing. Accidental overexposures of persons, in either the occupational or public field, have caused deaths and severe injuries and complications. The rate of severe accidents seems to increase with time, especially those involving the public; in addition, accidents are often not immediately recognised, which means that the real number of events remains unknown. Human factors, as well as the lack of elementary rules in the domains of radiological safety and protection, such as inadequate trai