The content of 131I in the thyroid gland of approximately 30000 residents of Kaluga oblast was measured in May 1986. The work was supported by calibration and verification of the measurement means and procedure. The data making it possible to evaluate the individual, average, median, and collective dose of internal irradiation of the thyroid gland in people of different ages in the populated points of the oblast are presented. The irradiation dose to the thyroid gland in children is much higher than for adults. It is found that the individual dose of internal irradiation to the thyroid gland is described by a nearly log-normal distribution. Some of the individuals examined have an individual dose which is several-fold higher than the average and median dose. This indicates the presence of groups with an elevated radiation risk; attention should be focused on this group first when medical-prophylactic and protective measures are taken. The data from Kaluga oblast, combined with similar results from Bryansk oblast and Belarus, have served as basis for reconstructing the individual absorbed irradiation dose to the thyroid gland and as dosimetric support of radiation-epidemiological studies using the case-monitoring procedure.
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Stepanenko, V.F., Yas’kova, E.K., Orlov, M.Y. et al. Internal irradiation of the thyroid gland in residents of Kaluga Oblast from results of 131I content measurements performed in May 1986. At Energy 105, 124–132 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-008-9075-0
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