A Review of Two Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project (HEDR) Dosimetry Reports Columbia River Pathway and Atmospheric Pathway (1995) / Chapter Skim
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V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 29-31
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OVERALL IMPRESSIONS · A fuller definition of source terms, model validation, and demographic characteristics ascribed to the three representative individual types on whom doses are computed should be included. The details are presented in other reports, which are cited, but a brief discussion of these crucial topics here would make the reports more selfcontained and comprehensible and make the results more credible to the average reader.
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Because the contribution of the water pathways to the total dose is small, except possibly in the case of the indigenous American Indian populations, this restriction of the assessment to the five major contributing radionuclides appears warranted, but the rationale for the restriction should be presented earlier.
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~ i_ ~ , · Consideration should be given to the changing patterns in breastfeeding habits and the use of dried milk over the years of this assessment. Milk is the major source of iodine-131 exposure of nursing infants, and such changes could lead to overestimation or underestimation of the thyroid dose.
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