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E Gasser1, A Nachab2, A Nourreddine1
1Groupe RaMsEs, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178 CNRS/IN2P3, 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, F-67037 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
Abstract:
Over the last four decades, the dose conversion factors used to calculate external exposure to γ radiation from soil from (40)K and the (226)Ra and (232)Th chains have been 0.62, 0.042 and 0.46 (nGy/h per Bq/kg), respectively. This work updates these γ-to-dose conversion factors, taking into consideration the composition, depth and radius of the soil source, and importantly, updated branching ratios, with MCNPX simulations. The new conversion factors are 0.036, 0.357 and 0.482 (nGy/h per Bq/kg) for (40)K and the (226)Ra and (232)Th chains, respectively.
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