Re: FW: NORM (understanding nuclear power/ICRP)

["John Johnson" <idias@interchange.ubc.ca>]

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From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>



>The weighting factor (RBE) for

> alpha may be reduced considerably (probably to make it more consistent

with

> various endpoints) - as a preliminary standpoint a factor of 10 rather

than

> 20 has been mentioned.



Bjorn and radsafers;



Lowering the W(sub r) for alphas would make sense. Many of us thought that

it should have been lowered to five (instead of being raised to 20) the last

time ICRP reviewed it.



John

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