Title: Towards the ICRP's new recommendations - problems in dosimetry
Abstract:I was most interested to read in the June issue of the Journal the latest ICRP Memorandum [1] reporting on the progress made in new thinking since the publication of a proposal for possible changes to...I was most interested to read in the June issue of the Journal the latest ICRP Memorandum [1] reporting on the progress made in new thinking since the publication of a proposal for possible changes to the system of protection, put forward by Roger Clarke in 1999 [2]. In going from a population-based to an individual-based philosophy, a number of fundamental issues arise, such as the implications of the abandonment of the concept of collective dose [3]. Clearly, there is some way to go, but here I should like to draw particular attention to the underlying questions concerning dosimetry. In his invited editorial, also published in the June issue [4], although pleading for minimal changes generally (`If it ain't broke, don't fix it'), Geoffrey Webb refers to `sorting out the dosimetry quantities' as `one of the things that need to be done'. Indeed, the ICRP Memorandum itself confirms that this issue `causes concern'.Read More
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Language: en
Type: letter
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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