Understanding nuclear power/ICRP (RBE/quality factors)

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>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.

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John should have credit for writing W(sub r) - the quality factor rather 

than RBE

which came from me (thanks). Anyway, what we want is the weighting factor

for cancer induction.



Bjorn Cedervall    bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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