(Frc) *°,

The MPC, is included in the ICRP recommendations’ ~

and is also an AEC radiation standard’.

Of the standards

-n Table I only the MPC, is designated in the AEC regulations.
HTowever,

this MPC, corresponds to that tabulated in ICRP

Publication 213 which is derived on the basis of the MPLD
listed in Table I.
he mpip?4 ,

The MPLB is not included in either the recommenda-

tions of ICRP, NCRP,

regulations.

The MPLB is also derived on the basis of

the guidelines of FRC,

In summery,

in AEC regulations)

or the AEC

in Table I the MPCa

(designated

is consistant with the MPLD and MPLB.

In

Table I the MPLD applies to all forms of ionizing radiation.
The MPLB and MPCs apply specifically to Pu-239 in insoluble
form!?.

10/
FRC Report No. 1, Op. cit., p. 38.
The FRC has been
wOlisned and its ducies transferred to EPA.
.
11/, “ICRP Publication 2, Report of Committee II on Permissible
Dose for Internal Radiation, Pergamon Press, New York, 1960.
.
[Appeared in Health Physics, Vol. 3, Pergamon Press, June 1960.)

12/

10 CFR 20, Appendix B.

13/

ICRP Publication 2, Op.

cit.

-

14/
Mann, J.R. and A.R. Kirchner, “Evaluation of Lung Burden
Following Acute Inhalation of Highly Insoluble Pu02,"
Health
Physics, Vol. 13, 1967, pp. 877-882.

15/

The MPLB could apply to most other alpha-emitting

radionuclides with long half-lives,

since the alpha particle

energies do not differ appreciably from the Pu-239 alpha

energy.

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