Committee 4 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 15 to 19 November 2010. The meeting was hosted by the World Health Organization headquarters (WHO) which is an official observer organization to ICRP Committees.
The Committee devoted significant time to further clarifying how the basic radiation protection principles and the dose criteria recommended in the new recommendations of the Commission apply to protection of the public and workers according to the three exposure situations defined in Publication 103, i.e. planned, existing and emergency exposure situations.
The Committee also reviewed several draft reports under preparation:
• Protection against enhanced exposure from industrial processes using NORM, prepared by Task Group 76 chaired by Peter Burns (Australia)
• Protection in disposal of long lived solid radioactive waste prepared by Task Group 80 chaired by Wolfgang Weiss (Germany)
• Protection against radon exposure prepared by Task Group 81 chaired by Jean-François Lecomte (France)
• The ICRP approach to integrate human and environmental protection prepared by the joint Committee 4 – Committee 5 Task Group 82 co-chaired by Jan Pentreath (UK) and Jacques Lochard (France)
The Committee also discussed the general orientation to be given to Task Group 83 on the protection of aircraft crew from cosmic radiation exposure chaired by Jacques Lochard (France). The next meeting of the Committee will take place in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, from 24 to 28 October, 2011 (Extract from ICRP Site).
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