Review and discussions on radiation doses in Japanese populations

Takahashi, Fumiaki  

The Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS) proposes international session under collaboration with scientific societies of this field in Asian countries at the annual meeting. The topics in this year is radiation dose assessment for internal and external exposures from natural and medical radiation sources. Whereas the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCER) has reported exposure of the public from various sources, the contribution of each radiation source to the annual dose can differ among countries due to life pattern. Radiation dose to ingestion becomes higher in Japan, because consume of seafood in which nuclide of uranium series can be accumulated is large. On the contrary, radiation dose from inhalation of Rn gas is lower in Japan due to residential structures. Although m medical exposure dose is assumed to be higher than average over the world in Japan, the dose were derived based upon data before 2000. In this session, the author will report the radiation dose in Japanese populations and issues to be discussed for dose assessments in more detail.