An upcoming special issue of Radiation Protection Dosimetry will focus on findings of the Russian Health Studies Program‘s Project 2.4: Mayak Worker Dosimetry. Project 2.4 reconstructed doses to workers first employed at the Mayak Production Association in Ozyorsk, Russia between 1948 and 1982. USTUR faculty members authored or coauthored three of the papers, and an additional 13 were authored/coauthored by USTUR adjunct faculty member, Dr. Alan Birchall (Global Dosimetry Ltd., United Kingdom).
USTUR Contributions
Tolmachev S.Y., Nielsen C.E., Avtandilashvili M., Puncher M., Martinez F., Thomas E.M., Miller F.L., Morgan W.F., Birchall A. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS 2013): Soluble Plutonium Retention in the Lungs of an Occupationally Exposed USTUR Case. E-published ahead of print: June 10, 2016.
Puncher M, Birchall A., Tolmachev S.Y. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS 2013): A Re-Analysis of USTUR Case 0269 to Determine Whether Plutonium Binds to the Lungs. E-published ahead of print: April 28, 2016.
Suslova K.G., Sokolova A.B., Tolmachev S.Y., Miller S.C. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Estimation of Plutonium Skeletal Burden from Limited Autopsy Bone Samples from Mayak Pa Workers. E-published ahead of print: August 17, 2016.
Adjunct Faculty
Birchall A., Marsh J.W. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): How to Weight the Absorbed Dose to Different Lung Regions in the Calculation of Lung Dose. E-published ahead of print: December 16, 2016.
Puncher M, Birchall A., Sokolova A.B., Suslova K.G. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Plutonium Dissolution in the Lungs—An Analysis of Mayak Workers. E-published ahead of print: December 16, 2016.
Birchall A., Puncher M., Vostrotin V. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Treatment of Uncertainty in Model Parameters. E-published ahead of print: August 29, 2016.
Dorrian M.-D., Birchall A., Vostrotin V. Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Phase I—Quality Assurance of Organ Doses and Excretion Rates From Internal Exposures of Plutonium-239 for the Mayak Worker Cohort. E-published ahead of print: June 20, 2016.
Birchall A., Dorrian M.-D., Suslova K.G., Sokolova A.B. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): A Comparison of Intakes Based on Urine Versus Autopsy Data From Mayak Workers Using the Leggett Systemic Model for Plutonium. E-published ahead of print: May 5, 2016.
Puncher M, Birchall A., Sokolova A.B., Suslova K.G. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Plutonium Binding in the Lungs—An Analysis of Mayak Workers. E-published ahead of print: September 8, 2016.
Zhdanov A., Vostrotin V., Efimov А., Birchall A., Puncher M. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Implementation of the Dose Calculations. E-published ahead of print: July 15, 2016.
Sokolova A.B., Birchall А., Efimov A.V., Vostrotin V.V., Dorrian M.-D. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Determination of the Individual Scenario of Inhaled Plutonium Intake in the Mayak Workers. E-published ahead of print: August 13, 2016.
Puncher M., Pellow P.G.D., Hodgson A., Etherington G., Birchall A. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): A Bayesian Analysis to Quantify Pulmonary Binding of Plutonium in Lungs Using Historic Beagle Dog Data. E-published ahead of print: August 22, 2016.
Vostrotin V., Birchall A., Zhdanov A., Gregoratto D., Suslova K., Marsh J., Efimov A. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Uncertainty in the Measurement of Pu Activity in a 24-Hour Urine Sample of a Typical Mayak PA Worker. E-published ahead of print: September 21, 2016.
Vostrotin V., Birchall A., Zhdanov A., Puncher M., Efimov A., Napier B., Sokolova A., Miller S., Suslova K. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): Internal Dosimetry Results. E-published ahead of print: September 24, 2016.
Birchall A., Puncher M. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System (MWDS-2013): How to Reduce Hyper-Realisations to Realisations. E-published ahead of print: September 21, 2016.
Birchall A., Sokolova A.B. The Mayak Worker Dosimetry System-2013: Treatment of Organ Masses in the Calculation of Organ Doses. E-published ahead of print: January 10, 2017.