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RE: Demise of UNSCEAR?



Have you seen any contradictions between the UNSCEAR reports and the ICRP,

NCRP, etc?



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

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Bowie, MD  20715-2024



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-----Original Message-----

From: Jerry Cohen [mailto:jjcohen@prodigy.net]

Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:55 PM

To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); 'RadSafe'

Subject: Re: Demise of UNSCEAR?





> 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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