Purpose Biological and/or physical assays for retrospective dosimetry are valuable tools to recover the exposure situation and aid medical decision making. To further validate improve such biological assays, in 2019, EURADOS Working Group 10 RENEB performed a field exercise Lund, Sweden, simulate various real-life scenarios.Materials methods For dicentric chromosome assay (DCA), blood tubes wer...

The malevolent dispersion of radioactive material, with the aim contaminating people and environment, is considered a credible terroristic threat. This article analyzes hypothetical Dirty Bomb detonation in an urban area, estimating radiological consequences to involved population first responders. material simulated using HOTSPOT code, considering explosion devices containing (alternatively) 6...