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ICRP Risk Estimates. An Alternative View (1986)

Auteur	Karl Z.Morgan
Datum	november 1986
Classificatie	6.01.4.30/46 (STRALING - NORMEN)
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ABSTRACT

For 60 years ICRP has served as the international source of information on risks
of exposure to ionizing radiation and has provided recommendations for radiation
protection. In general its publications have served a very useful purpose of reducing
unnecessary radiation exposure but in some respects ICRP has delayed action to
reduce excessive exposure, has underestimated radiation risks and has recommended
radiation exposure levels that are much too high. For decades it showed concern to
reduce exposure of doctors and nurses but ignored the principal source of population
exposure, namely, patient exposure. Beginning in 1960 we became aware of two
serious radiation exposure problems (occupational exposure in uranium mines and
population exposure from testing of nuclear weapons). One might have expected
ICRP to be the first to try to reduce these exposures but it was conspicuous for its
silence. In 1958 ICRP set limits of exposure for radiation workers and members of the
public. Nineteen years later (1977) when it was realized that the risk of radiation
induced cancer was 10 to 30 times what it was perceived to be in 1958, ICRP might
have been expected to recommend a major reduction in permissible exposure levels
but to the dismay of some of U$, it increased them. It was a great disappointment to
some of us in 1977 when levels of MPC of radionuclides in air, water and food were
increased for a large fraction of the more dangerous radionuclides. The reactor
accident at Chernobyl calls for a number of new ICRP recommendations. When
can we expect them?

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