The international agency, which is based in Vienna, said Sunday that its team measured radiation on Saturday of 0.4 to 3.7 microsieverts per hour at distances of 20 to 40 miles from the damaged plant — well outside the initial evacuation zone.
In cooperation with the clinical team, the radiation dose is determined either with measurements using suitable detectors and phantoms, and/or Monte Carlo simulations of the energy deposition from an x-ray examination.
In our institution an interdisciplinary team encompassing radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons, pathologists, and radiologists makes treatment decisions.
Several research teams investigated radiation-specific cytogenic alterations in the lymphocytes of about 1,000 exposed persons immediately after the accident and/or some years later (Schmitz-Feuerhake 2006; Schmitz-Feuerhake et al. 2006).
John Large, an independent nuclear adviser who led the team that conducted radiation analysis on the Russian Kursk submarine which sank in the Barents Sea in 2000, said: "It is unbelievable that this happened.
The team estimated that radiation striking these relatively clear particles, found mainly in the United States and other countries that burn a lot of fossil fuels, has a 96% chance of being scattered--not absorbed or reflected, as previously thought.
"A passer-by found the radioactive device dumped in Zubair and immediately informed security forces which went with a special prevention radiation team and retrieved the device," the chief of security panel in Basra provincial council Jabbar al-Saidi told Reuters.
Before study entry, all patients were assessed by a multidisciplinary team comprising medical, radiation and surgical oncologists, gastroenterologists and radiologists.
Clinical indications for vertebral augmentation were regularly confirmed by an interdisciplinary team of oncologists, radiation oncologists, spine surgeons, and interventional radiologists prior to the intervention.
Before entry into the study, all patients were assessed by our cancer network multi-disciplinary team comprising medical, radiation and surgical oncologists, gastroenterologists and radiologists.
