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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 127(1-4):2-7; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncm246
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The ICRP 2007 recommendations

C. Streffer*

Chairman of ICRP Committee 2, Institute of Science and Ethics, University Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany

* Corresponding author: streffer.essen@t-online.de

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   INTRODUCTION
 
The last comprehensive International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommendations have been published in 1991(1). Since that time new data in physics and biology that are relevant for radiological protection have appeared in the scientific literature. Also, the general thinking about safety standards at the workplace as well as for the protection of the public has developed. Thus, a review of the recommendations is needed. However, as the present standards have worked well, these new recommendations should build on the present ones. Only a process of further development should take place allowing for the following key points:

  • new biological and physical information and trends in the setting of safety standards;
  • improvement in the presentation of the recommendations;
  • as much stability in the recommendations as is consistent with the new information and
  • environmental aspects will be included.

The fundamental principles of radiological protection will remain the same as they have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   BASIC DATA FROM PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY
 

   THE SYSTEM OF RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION
 

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