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Some more information about ICRP
According to its constitution, In preparing its recommendations, ICRP considers the fundamental principles and quantitative bases upon which appropriate radiation protection measures can be established, while leaving to the various national protection bodies the responsibility of formulating the specific advice, codes of practice, or regulations that are best suited to the needs of their individual countries.
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ICRP offers its recommendations to regulatory and advisory agencies and provides advice intended to be of help to management and professional staff with responsibilities for radiological protection. While ICRP has no formal power to impose its proposals on anyone, in fact legislation in most countries adheres closely to ICRP recommendations. |
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| Originally, ICRP published its recommendations and advice as papers in various scientific journals in the fields of medicine and physics. Since 1959, ICRP has its own series of publications, since 1977 in the shape of a scientific journal, the Annals of the ICRP, which is published for us by Pergamon Press (now an imprint of Elsevier Science). |
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| The activities of ICRP are financed mainly by voluntary contributions from national and international bodies with an interest in radiological protection. Some additional funds accrue from royalties on ICRP publications. |
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| ICRP is composed of a Main Commission and five standing Committees: on Radiation effects, on Doses from radiation exposure, on Protection in medicine, and on the Application of ICRP recommendations, and on Protection on the environment, all served by a small Scientific Secretariat. The Main Commission consists of twelve members and a Chairman (currently Dr L-E Holm, Sweden). Like other scientific academies, the Commission elects its own members, under rules that are subject to the approval of ISR. Renewal is assured in that 3 to 5 members must be changed every fourth year. Committees typically comprise 15-20 members. Biologists and medical doctors dominate the current membership; physicists are also well represented. |
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| ICRP uses Task Groups (performing defined tasks) and Working Parties (developing ideas) to prepare its reports. A Task Group usually contains a majority of specialists from outside the ICRP membership. Thus, ICRP is an independent international network of specialists in various fields of radiological protection. At any one time, about one hundred eminent scientists are actively involved in the work of ICRP. |
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