Dose limits for occupational exposure to ionising radiation and genotoxic carcinogens: a German perspective
| Autor: | Werner Rühm, Rüdiger Greinert, Stephan Kistinger, Günter Dietze, Wolfgang Weiss, Rolf Michel, Christian Streffer, Wolfgang-Ulrich Müller, Heinz Otten, Anna A. Friedl, Peter Jacob, Joachim Breckow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Biophysics Commission Radiation Dosage Dose constraints Effective dose (radiation) 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging German 03 medical and health sciences Radiation Protection 0302 clinical medicine Germany Occupational Exposure Radiation Ionizing Animals Humans Medicine Dose Limits Genotoxic Carcinogens Ionising Radiation General Environmental Science Working life Radiation Actuarial science business.industry Radiation Exposure humanities language.human_language 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Radiological weapon Carcinogens language Occupational exposure Radiation protection business |
| Zdroj: | Radiat. Environ. Biophys. 59, 9-27 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1432-2099 0301-634X |
| Popis: | This paper summarises the view of the German Commission on Radiological Protection ("Strahlenschutzkommission", SSK) on the rationale behind the currently valid dose limits and dose constraints for workers recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). The paper includes a discussion of the reasoning behind current dose limits followed by a discussion of the detriment used by ICRP as a measure for stochastic health effects. Studies on radiation-induced cancer are reviewed because this endpoint represents the most important contribution to detriment. Recent findings on radiation-induced circulatory disease that are currently not included in detriment calculation are also reviewed. It appeared that for detriment calculations the contribution of circulatory diseases plays only a secondary role, although the uncertainties involved in their risk estimates are considerable. These discussions are complemented by a review of the procedures currently in use in Germany, or in discussion elsewhere, to define limits for genotoxic carcinogens. To put these concepts in perspective, actual occupational radiation exposures are exemplified with data from Germany, for the year 2012, and regulations in Germany are compared to the recommendations issued by ICRP. Conclusions include, among others, considerations on radiation protection concepts currently in use and recommendations of the SSK on the limitation of annual effective dose and effective dose cumulated over a whole working life. |
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