Public Health Effects of Radioactive Airborne Effluents from Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plant

It has been well known that nuclear power plant and coal-fired release some amount of radioactive materials during their normal operations. The purpose this study was to compare radiation exposure doses the public as a consequence airborne effluents released from plants under operation. NRCDose3 used estimate gaseous its operation while CAP88-PC calculate living around plant. results showed were less than those regulatory annual limits. Effective dose by external exposure, skin equivalent dose, organ 2.93 × 10−4 mSv/y, 2.90 10−3 1.78 10−2 respectively. On contrary, corresponding effective 1.13 5.33 1.17 10−1