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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
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----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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