Sudbrock, F., Schomaecker, K. and Drzezga, A. (2017). The effectiveness of wastewater treatment in nuclear medicine: Performance data and radioecological considerations. J. Environ. Radioact., 166. S. 202 - 208. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD. ISSN 1879-1700

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Abstract

For planned and ongoing storage of liquid radioactive waste in a designated plant for a nuclear medicine therapy ward (decontamination system/decay system), detailed knowledge of basic parameters such as the amount of radioactivity and the necessary decay time in the plant is required. The design of the plant at the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the University of Cologne, built in 2001, was based on assumptions about the individual discharge of activity from patients, which we can now retrospectively validate. The decontamination factor of the plant is at present in the order of 10(-9) for I-131 The annual discharges have been continuously reduced over the period of operation and are now in the region of a few kilobecquerels. This work emphasizes the high efficacy of the decontamination plant to reduce the amount of radioactivity released from the nuclear medicine ward into the environment to almost negligible levels. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Sudbrock, F.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Schomaecker, K.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Drzezga, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-248200
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.04.002
Journal or Publication Title: J. Environ. Radioact.
Volume: 166
Page Range: S. 202 - 208
Date: 2017
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Place of Publication: OXFORD
ISSN: 1879-1700
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
RADIATION-EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; POWER-PLANT; I-131; THERAPY; ENVIRONMENT; RADIOIODINE; SEWAGE; SYSTEMMultiple languages
Environmental SciencesMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24820

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