title: NCRP Program Area Committee 5: Environmental Radiation and Radioactive Waste Issues.
abstract: Program Area Committee 5 of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) focuses its activities on environmental radiation and radioactive waste issues. The Committee completed a number of reports in these subject areas, most recently NCRP Report No. 175, Decision Making for Late-Phase Recovery from Major Nuclear or Radiological Incidents. Historically this Committee addressed emerging issues of the nation pertaining to radioactivity or radiation in the environment or radioactive waste issues due either to natural origins or to manmade activities.
authors.affiliation: *Health Physics Program, Illinois Institute of Technology, 162 Life Sciences Building, 3300 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3793; †Environmental & Risk Assessment Section, Radiological Science Department, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, MS K3-54, Richland, WA 99352.
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Napier
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D000066388:Oil and Gas Industry; D011835:Radiation Protection; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D011850:Radioactive Waste; D011874:Radiometry; D058028:Research Report; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000458:organization & administration*
chemical_list: D011850:Radioactive Waste