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The ambient equivalent dose and effective dose are calculated using the ROBOT-Monte Carlo code. The absence of conservativity in the ICRU operational quantities with respect to the effective dose is discussed. It is shown that the factors WR need to be revised. 4 figures, 14 references.
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Central Physicotechnical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 297–302, October, 1999.
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Klass, E.V., Rezontov, V.A. & Shakhovskii, V.V. Questions concerning the determination of the effective external neutron irradiation dose. At Energy 87, 758–762 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02673266
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