Exposures from environmental radioactivity: international safety standards.
The paper presents the current international system for the protection of the public against environmental radioactivity. The protection system applies to all the three human exposure situations, i.e., planned, emergency and existing exposures. Radiation protection is a developing scientific and practical discipline and some of the areas in public radiation protection and protection of the environment that are in need of further elaboration are identified in the paper.
Balonov
Mikhail
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Institute of Radiation Hygiene, Mira St 8, 197101 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. m.balonov@mail.ru
D001822:Body Burden; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards; D038622:Internationality; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000592:standards*; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D012015:Reference Standards; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*
D011868:Radioisotopes