Recommendations on limits for exposure to ionizing radiation
The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) published its last complete set of basic recommendations specifying limits for ionizing radiation in 1971, in previous NCRP Report, Basic Radiation Protection Criteria (NCRP, 1971a). Although this Report is not intended to be a complete revision of NCRP Report No. 39, in that the background material in that report has not been revised, the recommendations contained herein replace all of the recommendations given in the 1971 Report. In a previous NCRP Report, some estimates of risk were presented, but these were not explicitly utilized in the derivation of recommended dose equivalent limits. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), in its Publication 26, presented risk estimates to demonstrate the acceptability of its basic dose equivalent limits (ICRP, 1977a); however, the ICRP did not derive their dose equivalent limits from those risk estimates. Subsequent updating of portions of ICRP Publication 26 have not brought about any closer coupling between their risk estimates and their dose equivalent limits. The Council believes that additional review and evaluation are required prior to the introduction of a radiation protection system in which the limitation of exposure is based solely on risk.
- OSTI ID:
- 5959598
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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DOSE RATES
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IONIZING RADIATIONS
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RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION PROTECTION
RADIATIONS
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