Routine individual monitoring of aircraft crew exposure; Czech experience and results 1998-2008

0360656 - ÚJF 2012 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Malušek, Alexandr - Ploc, Ondřej - Kovář, Ivan - Brabcová, Kateřina - Spurný, František
Routine individual monitoring of aircraft crew exposure; Czech experience and results 1998-2008.
Radiation Protection Dosimetry. Roč. 144, 1-4 (2011), s. 684-687. ISSN 0144-8420. E-ISSN 1742-3406
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA205/09/0171
Grant - others:Evropské společenství ILSRA(XE) FIGM-CT2000-00068 $c; JSPS(JP) P09753
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10480505
Keywords : aircraft * crew exposure * monitoring
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders
Impact factor: 0.822, year: 2011

Individual monitoring of aircrew of airline operators registered in the Czech Republic has been performed since 1998. In this work, annual effective doses and annual collective effective doses of aircrew from occupational exposure in the period from 1998 to 2008 are presented, methods used for their evaluation and verification are described, and general trends observed in the data are discussed. Annual effective doses were calculated using the computer code CARI. The method was verified via a comparison with (i) measurements using different types of detectors and (ii) calculations using the CARI and EPCARD codes with actual flight data. It was found that average annual effective doses in the period from 1998 to 2008 were in the range from 1.2 to 2.0 mSv and followed the trend of the solar cycle. Annual collective effective doses increased from 1.4 manSv in 1998 to 4.1 manSv in 2008 as the number of aircrew increased from 857 to 2158 during this period.
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