Re: Demise of UNSCEAR?

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

> UNSCEAR assembles experts who comb through and analyze the literature on

> such topics as the health effects of the Chernobyl accident, non-cancer

> mortality from ionizing radiation, and the risks associated with

> radiation-based medical procedures. Their work forms the core of the tomes

> the committee puts out every few years. The International Atomic Energy

> Agency, the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and other

> international and national bodies use data from UNSCEAR in setting safety

> standards and making policies, says the committee's chair, Joyce

Lipsztein,

> a radiation protection scientist at Brazil's National Atomic Energy

> Commission. "UNSCEAR is not biased. It's just scientific, not political.

> That's why it's so valuable."



It may also explain why UNSCEAR is dying while ICRP, NCRP, etc. survive.



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