Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on August 21, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 130(3):267-268; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn222
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De-fragmenting standards
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Dr Klaus Becker, former chairman of ISO/TC85 on Nuclear Energy, put together a small blue-covered book(1) listing the names and numbers of those international standards pertaining to radiation protection. In 1994, when the 7th Edition of this catalogue was published, there were 8760 entries (including multiple listings). The first edition of this catalogue was published in 1975 and listed 1900 documents. A subsequent edition in 1981 listed 2500 documents and by 1991 the number had