Overview of Brazilian industrial radiography accidents with cutaneous radiation syndrome

Lima, Camila Moreira; Silva, Francisco Cesar Augusto Da

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“…According to the IAEA and United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), up to 2011 there were 80 radiological accidents in industrial radiography, involving 120 radiation workers and 110 members of the public, with 12 deaths. Brazilian data, from 1985 to 2018, includes five serious radiological accidents that affected seven radiation workers and 19 members of the public; the radiation workers developed cutaneous radiation syndrome to the hands and fingers [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Reconstructive dosimetry and radiation dose evaluation of workers and public due to a Brazilian radiological accident in industrial radiography

Lima¹,

Silva²,

Hunt

et al. 2022

J. Radiol. Prot.

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Radiological accidents occur mainly in the practices recognized as high 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 is the focus of this paper. In this accident, a 3.28 TBq 192Ir radioactive source was left unshielded for 9 hours in a NDT company parking lot, and many radiation workers, employees and 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 recognised 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.

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