What On-site Inspectors under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty can learn from the “Co-expertise Process” Experiences implemented after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accidents?
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- Publication : vendredi 5 juillet 2024 09:36
THU ZAR W., LOCHARD J., KALINOWSKI M., COLLINSON A., SCHNEIDER T.
Pure and Applied Geophysics
Abstract
Statistical benchmark data are necessary when considering the basis for radiation protection criteria based on calculated risks. We herein focused on baseline mortality and incidence cancer rates as benchmark data collected from 33 countries. Furthermore, we calculated the lifetime mortality and incidence risks and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for all solid cancers, colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, and leukemia using the baseline cancer rates and compared them among the countries. The results showed that the lifetime mortality and incidence risks and DALYs for all solid cancers differed among the countries by a factor of 2–4 for males and 2–3 for females; these were low in less-developed countries. Our study proposed that health risk based on baseline cancer rates should be the benchmark for comparing radiation cancer risks.
Pure and Applied Geophysics, 31 May 2024