Radiation Protection Radiation Protection

Take away points
1. Additional doses to members of the public
should not exceed 1 millisievert in a year
2. Total doses to workers should not exceed
20 millisievert in a year, , except for
emergency workers () ( () ) and pregnant workers () ( ()
3. Existing doses to members of the public of
several tens of millisieverts, , e.g. following an
accident, will justify intervention with special
protective measures, but if the doses are around
1 millisievert intervention may not be justifiable.
26 July, 2012 WNU-Summer Institute
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