[ RadSafe ] New Radiation Protection Unit? The Taylor (Ty)

[John Jacobus]

Peter, et. al. 
The NCRP is asking for comments on their proposal at
http://www.ncrponline.org/Draft%20Documents/Public%20Comment%20Sheet.pdf


--- Peter Thomas <Peter.Thomas at arpansa.gov.au> wrote:

> Sandy,
> 
> I understood that the ICRP was wanting to rename
> equivalent dose as
> radiation-weighted dose and give it a new unit to
> distinguish it from
> absorbed dose and effective dose.  (See para 48 of
> the 2005 draft
> recommendations as released at IRPA11, but now gone
> back into further
> deliberation) I guess that still leaves the
> operational dose equivalents
> with the same unit as effective dose.  In that
> context I'd view the
> NCRP's action as an attempt to nominate "their man"
> for the new unit.
> 
> Peter Thomas
> Medical Physics Section
> ARPANSA
>  
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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