Living with Radiation – Engaging with Society

s within the principal Technical Sessions and associated Poster Sessions are arranged in accordance with ourdefined scientific areas as follows: 1. Biological and Health Effects of Ionising Radiation2. Measurements and Dosimetry3. Radiation Protection System Development and Implementation4. Stakeholder Engagement and Involvement5. Non-Ionising Radiation6. Planned Exposure Situations: Industry and Research7. Planned Exposure Situations: Medicine8. Planned Exposure Situations: Radioactive Waste Management9. Emergency Exposure Situations10. Existing Exposure Situations11. Protection of the Environment12. Fukushima These areas are colour-coded to assist you in navigating through the programme. IRPA13 is placing emphasis on developing our next generation of radiation protection professionals. To this end we haveestablished a Young Professionals Prize competition for the best presentation by a young person at the Congress. Thereare 17 entrants nominated by Associate Societies, and these presentations are indicated by an asterisk (*) in this book. Given that the theme chosen for the Congress is Living with Radiation – Engaging with Society we also attach a copy ofIRPA’s Guiding Principles on Stakeholder Engagement, which we commend to your attention. I am sure that you will have an enjoyable and stimulating Congress, and I look forward to meeting as many of you aspossible. Roger CoatesIRPA13 Congress President Living with Radiation Engaging with Society This document contains the abstracts for IRPA13. For best results, werecommend viewing it in full screen mode. You can switch to full screen modeby pressing Ctrl+L (Command+L on a Mac). You can exit full screen mode at anytime by pressing Escape. The abstracts are arranged in the following categories. Clicking on a categorywill take you to the relevant list of abstracts in the table of contents. From thereyou can click on the title of an abstract to go directly to that abstract. There is ahome button at the top of each page which will bring you back to this page. Living with Radiation Engaging with Society