The ICRP 60 and the Agency's Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material

Year
1992
Author(s)
A.L. Biaggio - Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials.
R.G. Novo - Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Argentina
File Attachment
1231.PDF1.57 MB
Abstract
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has adopted its new \"1990 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection\" in November 1990, they were published in 1991 as \"ICRP Publication 60.\" Two main scenarios are considered by the new ICRP's recommendations: a) Protection in proposed and continuing practices (further subdivided as protection against actual exposures and protection against potential exposures); and b) Protection by intervention. Although intervention means any activity in order to decrease the overall exposure, removing existing sources, modifying pathways or reducing the number of exposed individuals, in relation to the transport of radioactive materials, protection by intervention is related mainly to emergency planning, while protection against actual and potential exposures can be considered as the subject of most of the requirements of the \"Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material\", of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).