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RE: The ICRP, ICRU, NCRP and other private nonprofit organizations depend on contracts for financial support
John,
As a matter of fact, the NCRP is having a symposium on CT patient exposures.
See http://www.ncrp.com/dates.html
I know that one of the problems is that federal agencies have cut back on
annual support to non-federal groups and research labs. The NCRP used to
get $500K from the NRC. Now they get $50K. And you get what you pay for.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cameron [mailto:jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:14 PM
To: Jerry Cohen
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: The ICRP, ICRU, NCRP and other private nonprofit organizations
depend on contracts for financial support
>One of the weakness of private nonprofit organizations such as the
>ICRP is that their life blood (i.e. $) is from contracts. They get
>some money from governments but for specific contracts. For example
>the NCRP had a contract from NRC to review the LNT assumption which
>was published last year as NCRP Report No. 136.
When I asked the NCRP why they don't do a report on reducing
the major source of man-made radiation to the public, i.e. medical
uses of x-rays, they replied that no one has given them a contract to
write such a report.
This is a serious weakness of nonprofit advisory groups. I
won't go into other weaknesses of procedures for establishing
radiation protection rules.
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