The Possible Importance of Short-term Exposure to Resuspended Radionuclides

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Abstract
The role played by the resuspension of deposited radionuclides, within about 2 yr of deposition, in contributing to an exposure hazard [human] is assessed. Such an assessment is necessarily uncertain because of the sparsity and variability of data on which a description of resuspension is based. In the particular application of assessing the consequences of hypothetical reactor accidents, pessimistic assumptions about the short-term resuspension can easily lead to the inhalation-via-resuspension exposure pathway during the first few weeks. This is at least as important as the inhalation directly from the cloud from which deposition took place, unless land-use restrictions are imposed.

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