BOOKLET to Provide Basic Information Regarding Health Effects of Radiation (1st Edition)

Chapter 9 Efforts toward Recovery from the Accident 9.1 Decontamination

Decontamination and Decreases in Radiation Doses

Decontamination and Decreases in Radiation Doses_Figure

This is a conceptual figure showing decreases in doses of accident-derived radioactive materials.

Through decontamination work, radiation doses can be reduced faster, assisting the effects of physical attenuation of radioactive materials.

(Related to p.11 of Vol. 1, "Half-lives and Radioactive Decay")

Included in this reference material on March 31, 2014
Updated on January 18, 2016