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Radiation exposure to workers in China

Aging facilities, human error add radiation risk
By Chen Jia (China Daily)Updated: 2009-08-04

China is facing a growing problem with more and more accidents in the workplace involving radiation exposure, experts have said.

……………………….. most of them are due to human error,” said Wang Zuoyuan, former chief of the radiation protection and safety department under the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He was speaking to China Economic Weekly in an article published yesterday.

Transportation errors, equipment failure and radiation sources that were stolen or abandoned were among the main causes of the accidents, Wang said.

The number of radiation sources in the country reached 106,000 at the end of 2008, according to the Ministry of Environmental Protection………………

People can get cancer when exposed to certain types of radiation, said Liu Ying, who works for the Chinese Center for Medical Response to Radiation Emergency under the National Institute for Radiological Protection.

August 4, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | China, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium