Comments to proposed new ICRP Recommendations

[LassePer@AOL.COM]

WUNUC Conference 28-29 June 2001 in Dublin, Ireland

-   An electronic overhead was presented by Dr Lars Persson as comments to 

Professor R Clarke´s, President of ICRP, lecture 29 June: Changing philosophy 

in ICRP; the evolution of protection ethics and principles.



o   A comprehensive philosophy is needed for radiation protection that can 

answer all questions posed by the health physicists

o   Collective doses must thus remain also in the future as a concept in 

order to protect man from exposures originating from many different radiation 

sources

o   ICRP 60 recommendations have good acceptance and are implemented all over 

the world

o   ICRP should spell out which ethical values it follows

o   Compensation to workers: the CWD should work

o   The workers´ right to know must be guaranteed

o   "No radiation without representation"



-   The comments so presented lead to one remark by Clarke: There is not yet 

any acceptance of the ICRP 60 recommendations in USA (to be checked).





Colleagues,

Pls send your comments to me: lasseper@aol.com 

The proposed new Recommendations from ICRP are published in Journal of 

Radiological Protection latest circulated issue as a Memorandum. Use for 

example the seach engine  www.google.com to find the article in the journal.

Pls tell me if NCRP or any other US Government organisation has agreed to 

ICRP 60 Recommendations from 1990.



See also the English website of SSI: www.ssi.se for a new report on ethics in 

radiation protection (SSI report 2001:11).

Lars Persson

SSI

17116 Stockholm

lars.persson@ssi.se

www.ssi.se

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