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APPENDIX "A"
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
BACKGROUND
1.
The trend in thinking of the International Commission
on Radiation Protection, the National Committee on Radiation
Protection, and the National Academy of Science is toward more
restrictive criteria for standards of radiation protection.
The
National Academy of Seience Report recommends, "---That for the
present it be accepted as a uniform national standard that x-ray
installations (medical and nonmedical), power installations, disposal of radioactive wastes,
of weapons,
experimental installations,
testing
and all other humanly controllable sources of radiations
be so restricted that members of our general population shall not
receive from such sources an average of more than 10 roentgens, in
addition to background, of ionizing radiation as a total accumu-
lated dose to the reproductive cells from conception to age 30.--~-"
The NAS Report also states,
"~--That individual persons not
recelve more than a total accumulated dose to the reproductive
cells of 50 roentgens up to age 30 years---",
DISCUSSION
2,
The dividing line between "individual persons” and
"seneral population" is not distinct in the NAS Report.
The
numbers of people involved around the Nevada Test Site might not
constitute a "general population” yet it probably would be
difficult to categorize many thousands of people as "individual
persons,"
Further, there is in a sense "inbreeding" within this
population.
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