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2001 Recommodations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk (2001)
| Author | European Commission |
| Date | 2001 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.30/67 (RADIATION - STANDARDS) |
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From the publication:
2.2 Basis of the report The present report is intended to be accessible to and to inform decision makers who need to assess the health risk to workers or members of the public who may be exposed as a result of practices which involve ionising radiation. It is therefore labelled a 'Users' Edition', the aim being to condense or review enough of the area for this process to be possible without being unwieldy. Future publications will deal in depth with the issues outlined here. The basis of the report is a perceived failure of the present radiation risk model (named here the ICRP model) to explain or predict real increases in ill health in a large number of groups exposed to ionising radiation at low doses. Most of the examples where this has occurred will be referred to in the body of the report. They include reports which have been published in the peer- review literature, and reports which have not, or which started life at television documentaries and ended as court cases. They include the evidence of those who voted with their feet and left areas where there were nuclear sites, regions which slowly became wastelands where only the poorest people could live and where the beaches were deserted by holidaymakers and fish were increasingly difficult to either catch or sell.
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