Second North American Workshop$11 6(&21281 '&(0(17on the Ethical Dimensions of
the System of Radiological Protection

March 10-12, 2015

For information or to register contact:
Behnam_Taebi@hks.harvard.edu

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 John F. Kennedy Street - Cambridge, MA 02138 - USA
Hosted by:

In cooperation with:The International Commission
on Radiological Protection

Second North American Workshop
on the Ethical Dimensions of
the System of Radiological Protection

March 10-12, 2015
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
has established Task Group 94 to develop a publication on the ethicalfoundations of the system of radiological protection, aiming toconsolidate the basis of ICRP’s recommendations, to improve theunderstanding of the system and to provide a basis for communication
on radiation risk and its perception.
To support this effort, a series of regional workshops is being held. The
first in this series were held in Daejeon (Korea), Milan (Italy), andBaltimore (USA), supported by the local Associate Societies of theInternational Radiation Protection Association.
Collaboration between radiological protection professionals and applied
ethicists in these and other related workshops has resulted in significant
progress, including identifying and characterising some of the key
values that underlie the system of radiological protection.
A second series of regional workshops is planned for 2015, including
meetings in Madrid (Spain) February 4-6, Fukushima City (Japan) June
2-4, and this one in Cambridge (USA) March 10-12.

Continuing education credits will be requested from the ABHP forattendance.

Hosted by:

In cooperation with:The International Commission
on Radiological Protection

Second North American Workshop
on the Ethical Dimensions ofthe System of Radiological ProtectionMarch 10-12, 2015
Address: Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Plenary Meeting room: Nye A, 5th floor Taubman building(Taubman is the building facing Eliot Street, next door to the Charles Hotel Plaza)
Breakout Sessions: Nye A (5th floor Taubman building) and Taubman-401 (4th floor Taubman building)
Organizing Committee: Behnam Taebi, Christopher Clement, Jacques Lochard, and Dick Toohey

Day 1: Tuesday 10 March 2015 – chaired by Behnam Taebi
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:30 Opening of the workshop- Jacques Lochard: ICRP’s recent efforts to revise its recommendations- Kunwoo Cho & Chieko Kurihara: ICRP Task Group 94 on the Ethics of Radiological Protection
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Stephen Gardiner - Revising the Principles of Radiological Protection
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Sheila Jasanoff - Imaginaries of Risk and the Ethics of Radiation Protection
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Friedo Zölzer - "Common Morality" Approaches for the Ethics of Radiological Protection

Day 2: Wednesday 11 March 2015 – chaired by Christopher Clement
09:00-10:30 Behnam Taebi - Bridging the Gap between Social Acceptance and Ethical Acceptability
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 General discussion
12:00-12:30 Christopher Clement - Introduction to the questions addressed in the breakout sessions
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-17:00 Breakout sessions

Day 3: Thursday 12 March 2015 – chaired by Jacques Lochard
09:00-10:30 Continuing breakout sessions
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Reporting back to the plenary session
11:30-12:30 General discussion
12:30-13:00 Summary of the findings (Behnam Taebi) + closing remarks (Jacques Lochard)Second North American Workshop
on the Ethical Dimensions ofthe System of Radiological Protection
The breakout groups will address the following questions:
What are the key elements of the principles of beneficence, justice, dignity, andprudence as they relate to the ethical basis of the system of radiological protection? Draft practical definitions of each for this context.
Are these four principles a sufficient ethical basis for the system of radiologicalprotection? If not, what is missing?
Session Chairs and Speakers:
Christopher Clement, Scientific Secretary, International Commission on RadiologicalProtection
Christopher Clement has dedicated more than 25 years to radiological protection, first on remediationof radioactively contaminated sites across Canada, and later in a number of positions within the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission culminating in Director of Radiation Protection. In 2008 he wasappointed as Scientific Secretary of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP),
where he oversees the daily operations of the organisation and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Annals ofthe ICRP. In addition to his full-time ICRP duties, he is a member of the Executive Council of theInternational Radiation Protection Association.

Stephen Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human
Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. His main areas of interest
are ethical theory, political philosophy and environmental ethics. He is the author of A Perfect Moral
Storm: the Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (Oxford, 2011), the coordinating co-editor of Climate
Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (Cornell,2005).

Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy
SchoolSheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy
School. A pioneer in her field, she has authored more than 100 articles and chapters and is author oreditor of a dozen books, including Controlling Chemicals, The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, andDesigns on Nature. Her work explores the role of science and technology in the law, politics, andpolicy of modern democracies, with particular attention to the nature of public reason. She was founding chair of the STS Department at Cornell University and has held numerous distinguished visiting
appointments in the US, Europe, and Japan. Jasanoff served on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and as President of the Society for Social Studies ofScience. Her grants and awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship and an Ehrenkreuz from theGovernment of Austria. She holds AB, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard, and an honorary doctorate
from the University of Twente.

Second North American Workshop
on the Ethical Dimensions ofthe System of Radiological Protection
Jacques Lochard, Vice-Chair, International Commission on Radiological Protection
Jacques Lochard is Director of the Nuclear Protection Evaluation Centre (CEPN) in France. Economistby training, his main contribution in radiation protection has been in the development of methodologies
and implementation tools in optimisation of radiological protection. Since 1990 he has been involved inprojects on the rehabilitation of living conditions in the contaminated territories of Belarus and now inseveral activities in Japan related to the Fukushima accident. He has been President of the FrenchSociety of Radiation Protection, Chairman of the Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Healthof the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD and Executive Officer of the International Radiation
Protection Association. He is currently Vice-Chair of ICRP.

Behnam Taebi, Assistant professor of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology and ResearchFellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Behnam Taebi is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology, and a
Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His
research interests are in energy ethics, responsible innovation and nuclear ethics. He studied Material
Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010). Taebi isworking on a project on ‘ethics and governance of multinational nuclear waste repositories’. He is thecoordinating editor of a forthcoming volume on The Ethics of Nuclear Energy (Cambridge UniversityPress) and a special issue of Journal of Risk Research on "Socio-Technical Challenges of Nuclear
Power Production." Taebi is currently based in Cambridge (Massachusetts), where he spends asabbatical year at Harvard University. He is involved in the Belfer Center's ‘Project on Managing theAtom’ and ‘International Security Program’.
Richard Toohey, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
Richard Toohey received his PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1973. He spent thefirst part of his career at Argonne National Laboratory in both research and operational health physics.
He recently retired from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, where he served as director of the Radiation Internal Dose Information Center, as Senior Health Physicist for the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site, Director of Dose Reconstruction Programs, and Associate Director of the
Independent Environmental Assessment and Verification Program. He is currently employed by M.H.
Chew and Associates. He is certified in comprehensive practice by the American Board of HealthPhysics, was the 2008 to 2009 President of the Health Physics Society, is a member and director ofNCRP, Treasurer of the International Radiation Protection Association, and Chair of the Scientific
Advisory Committee for the U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries. His specialties are internalradiation dosimetry, dose reconstruction, and radiological emergency response. Dr. Toohey has 125
publications in the open literature, and is a retired Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve.
Friedo Zölzer, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Radiobiology, University of South
Bohemia
Friedo Zölzer is Professor of Environmental Sciences and Radiobiology, and the head of the Department of Radiology, Toxicology and Civil Protection at Faculty of Health and Social Studies, University
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