Radiological
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment
Human Health
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment
Ecological
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment
Do you know the
RAPA Team?
RAPA Team?
100
This “family of computer codes” for evaluating human and ecological radiation exposure and effects were developed at Argonne National Laboratory.
What is RESRAD?
100
The part of the risk assessment process that these pictures represent.
What are exposure routes?
100
A network of interconnected food chains encompassing producers, consumers, and decomposers.
What is a food web?
100
This RAPA member once “boxed” a kangaroo in Australia.
Who is Aimee Reynolds?
200
This government agency is responsible for the U.S. nuclear weapons program as well as legacy contamination at related sites.
What is the Department of Energy
200
This is the sum of the intake rates divided by the reference doses (i.e., sum of hazard quotients).
What is the hazard index?
200
In an Ecological Risk Assessment, this depiction of site conditions serves as the basis for planning the risk assessment.
What is a Conceptual Site Model?
200
Which RAPA member suffered terribly in HS because their last name rhymes with famous 1979 hit by The Knack?
Who is Ralph Perona?
300
One of these kinds of radiation does not have enough localized energy to create ions, damage DNA, and induce cancer: alpha particles, beta particles, microwaves, gamma radiation
What is microwaves?
300
The compound evaluated using a biokinetics model that predicts the probability of a percentage of children exceeding a concentration in blood based upon a particular exposure.
What is lead?
300
This term considers how far a receptor may travel and how much of a contaminated environment they may encounter.
What is home range?
300
This RAPA member is an adrenaline junky.
Who is Alyssa Mckenzie?
400
With shielding from the atmosphere and magnetic fields, we receive about 2.5 mrem/month from solar and cosmic radiation. About how much do astronauts receive in the International Space Station?: 1 mrem/month, 10 mrem/month, 100 mrem/month, 1000 mrem/month.
What is 1000 mrem/month?
400
Ubiquitous class of compounds often created as a by-product of heating chlorinated substances.
What are dioxins and furans?
400
A risk estimate, evaluation of uncertainties, and determination of ecological significance are the 3 main components of this 6th Step of the EPA ERA process.
What is Risk Characterization?
400
This RAPA member while on travel to San Francisco for a Navy risk assessment, accidentally turned their rental car onto railroad tracks and got stuck on the tracks.
Who is Greg McDermott?
500
One of these kinds of radiation cannot penetrate the skin and result in radiation dose from an external source: alpha particles, beta particles, x-rays, gamma radiation
What is alpha particles?
500
A class of 15,252 currently identified, nearly ubiquitous compounds, toxic at very low concentrations, with health effects that include decreased response to vaccines.
What are PFAS (per and poly fluoroalkyl substances)?
500
Name this receptor, whom also is the New Mexico State Bird.
What is the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)?
500
Following a site investigation in New Mexico, this RAPA Member transported radioactive soil samples to the Hoover Dam.
Who is Vanessa Schenavar?