(Dose and dose-rate effects on radiation response): Foreign trip report, May 5--13, 1989

Technical Report · Thu May 25 04:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5696895

Selby, P B

The traveler attended the thirty-eighth session of UNSCEAR where he took part in the meetings of the Biological Subgroup and the Working Group of the entire UNSCEAR Committee. He was responsible for the correction of several major errors in the draft version of the document entitled ''Dose and Dose-Rate Effects on Radiation Response. '' He also played a key role in bringing about UNSCEAR's decision to prepare a document on hereditary defects in the current cycle. To a large extent, it was because of the traveler's arguments that UNSCEAR reversed the Secretariat's decision not to reevaluate genetic risk in this cycle and decided that a genetics report was among its highest priorities. Important contacts were made with many internationally prominent scientists involved in radiation protection and risk evaluation. It was apparent how important it is to ORNL, to DOE, to the United States Government, and to UNSCEAR itself to have a representative from the United States present who has firsthand familiarity with the mouse data that are used to such an important extent in genetic risk estimation. Many of these data were collected in the Biology Division of ORNL.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5696895
• Report Number(s): ORNL/FTR-3256; ON: DE89017450
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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560151* -- Radiation Effects on Animals-- Man
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
AUSTRIA
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
DOSE RATES
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS
EUROPE
EXPLOSIONS
GENETIC EFFECTS
MAMMALS
MEETINGS
MICE
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
RISK ASSESSMENT
RODENTS
TRAVEL
VERTEBRATES
WESTERN EUROPE