INTRODUCTION On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced its largest recorded earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0. The resulting tsunami caused massive damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors, and the surrounding environment was contaminated with radioactive materials. During this period, some residents were exposed to high levels of radiation (up to 5 millisieverts [mSv]), but sin...

Moore’s law has been the driving force behind the increasing computing power of today’s devices which is based on shrinking feature sizes. This shrinking process makes future devices extremely susceptible to soft errors due to, e.g., external influences like environmental radiation and internal issues like stress effects, aging and process variation. For future technology nodes "Designing relia...

The newly launched IAEA project MEREIA (MEthods for Radiological and Environmental Impact Assessment; 2021- 2025), continues some activities of previous exercises in the field radioecological modelling focuses on areas where probabilistic approach determines predictive capability environmental models. program offered opportunity to set up well-designed verified scenarios collect compare exposur...

Prostate cancer continues to affect an increasing number of men in the United States. When diagnosed, these men may not have access to information that differentiates the long-term outcomes of one method of treatment from another. This study evaluated the impact of external beam radiation on several domains of quality of life, including physical, social/family, emotional, and functional well-be...

Dolon village, located about 60 km from the border of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, is known to be heavily contaminated by local fallout from the first USSR atomic bomb test in 1949. External radiation in Dolon was evaluated based on recent 137Cs data in soil and calculation of temporal change in the fission product composition. After fitting a log-normal distribution to the soil data, a...

All of these materials are transported on land, sea or in the air in compliance with regulations which are now universally based on the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials Ref. [1]. These regulations are designed to ensure adequate protection of transport workers, the public and the environment against the hazards of external radiation, the spread of radioactive con...