KUR-Uran: 235U Fission Neutrons
 235U energy converter, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University
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Uranium fission neutrons (KUR Energy Converter), Mean energy Ê=1.985 MeV
  Experimental system
Material: Human peripheral blood lymphocytes (Whole blood) (Male, 32 yrs)
KUR Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University (Heavy water facility)
Dose rate: 3.38E+07 n/cm2/sec; Contaminated gamma rays=50.7 % of the total dose
Date: 1987.06.10.
Time Dose No. of Aberrations Distribution of cells with indicated number of aberrations
(sec) (Gy) cells Tet Tri Dic Rc Ra aM F del S del Aber 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
0 0 1000 1 1 Dics 1000
D+R 1000
All 999 1
25 0.049 1000 16 6 3 4 25 5 8 6 Dics 985 14 1
D+R 976 23 1
All 967 27 5 1
50 0.1 500 24 5 3 3 33 5 4 3 Dics 477 22 1
D+R 470 28 2
All 464 29 7
150 0.288 300 48 10 1 6 72 18 12 8 Dics 261 31 7 1
D+R 252 39 7 2
All 235 46 15 2 1 1
250 0.503 300 1 78 19 2 13 106 19 25 14 Dics 234 56 8 1 1
D+R 222 63 9 5 1
All 201 70 20 3 4 1 1
500 0.96 300 5 173 25 8 32 225 38 59 44 Dics 177 74 41 5 3
D+R 163 77 47 7 6
All 121 83 60 25 6 3 1 1
750 1.43 300 6 207 52 21 65 310 61 101 84 Dics 152 101 30 13 2 1
D+R 120 113 36 21 8 2
All 74 94 54 44 15 9 7 3
1000 1.911 300 14 356 64 23 84 483 65 132 110 Dics 92 103 61 25 11 8
D+R 71 99 64 38 13 12 3
All 48 59 62 59 31 16 13 9 2 1
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Ref: Sasaki, M. S. (1988). Chromosomal approaches to the dose assessment in human exposures to ionizing radiation. Berzelius Symposium, XV, pp.131-140.
Sasaki, M. S., Saigusa, S., Kimura, I. et al. (1992). Biological effectiveness of fission neutrons: energy dependency and its implication for the risk assessment.
Proc. Int. Conference on Radiation Effects and Protection. Mach 18-20, 1992, Mito. pp.33-35.
Sasaki, M. S., Takatsuji, T. and Ejima, Y. (1998), Radiat. Res., 150:253-258.
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