Radiological Protection of the Environment: The Path forward to a New Policy?
Subtitle: Workshop Proceedings, Taormina, Sicily, Italy 12-14 February 2002
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and Nuclear Energy Agency
Contributors: Nuclear Energy Agency
Series: Radiation Protection
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9789264099708
Subjects: Nuclear energy
Description: The international system of radiological protection is being revised to make it more coherent and concise. During the revision process, particular attention is given to the development of an explicit system for the radiological protection of the environment in addition to that of human beings. These proceedings comprise the views of a broad range of invited speakers, including policy makers, regulators, radiation protection and environmental protection professionals, industry, social scientists and representatives of both non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations.
Table of contents: title: Foreword'; title: Opening Address by Kazuro Shimomura; title: What Does ICRP Expect from These Fora? by Roger Clarke; title: Session 1: The Rationale behind a New Approach to Protect the Environment from Radiation; title: -The Development of the IAEA Policy on the Radiological Protection of the Environment by G. Linsley; title: Protection of the Environment - Views from the Nordic Meeting on Environmental Radiological Protection by S. M. Magnusson; title: Radioecology and Environmental Issues in Japan: Past and Present by J. Matsubara; title: Protection of the Environment from Ionising Radiation: Ethical Isues by D. Oughton; title: Strategies for the Protection of the Environment from Other Hazards by K. Ruffing; title: Expectations for the Protection of the Environment: Are Exposures Important? by S. Carroll; title: Radiation Protection with Respect for Nature, Views from Japan by K. Fujimoto; title: Session 2. Scientific Knowledge and Ongoing Research - Status, Objectives, and Goals; title: -Outcomes of the IAEA Programme on the Radiological Protection of the Environment by C. Robinson; title: Framework for Assessment of Environmental Impact (FASSET) by C. M. Larsson; title: What Harm Do We Want to Protect against, and How Should It Be Assessed? by N. Gentner; title: What Do We Clearly Know on Environmental Impact and Its Causes? by J.-C. Barescut; title: Concepts, Methods, and Models to Assess Environmental Impact by R. J. Pentreath; title: A Model Ecosystem Experiment and Its Computational Simulation Studies by M. Doi; title: U.S. Department of Energy's Graded Approach for Evaluating Radiation Doses to Aquatic and Terrestria Biota by S. L. Domotor; title: Impact Assessment of Ionising Radiation on Wildlife: An Interim Methodology for the UK Regulator by S. R. Jones, I. Gize, and D. Copplestone; title: Session 3. Socio-Political Aspects of Radiological Protection of the Environment; title: -The Future of Environmental Protection: A U.S. Regulator's Perspective by F. J. Dicus; title: Non-Radiological Factors and Decision Making on the Radiological Protection of the Environment by A. Simcock; title: The Regulator's Viewpoint by P. Sendin; title: U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry Perspective on Possible ICRP Recommendations on Radiological Environmental Protection by R. L. Anderson; title: Problems in Developing a Rational Approach to Radiobiological Protection of the Environment from a Regulatory Viewpoint by E. Sgrilli and G. Tarroni; title: Session 4. Strategy to Develop an Efficient System for the Protection of the Environment against Radiation; title: -How Could the Systems for the Radiological Protection of the Environment and of Man be Integrated? by L.E. Holm; title: Stakeholder Involvement in Developing Environmental Radiation Protection: Policy and Recommendations by J. Till; title: Synthesis of the Forum; title: -Summary Comments by R. Jones; title: What Do We Know? Where Do We Go From Here? Implications for ICRP Developments by R. Clarke; title: List of Participants