terc) l®,

The MPC, is included in the ICRP recommendations

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and is also an AEC radiation standard”*.

ll

O£ the standards

in Table I only the MPCg is desiqnated in the AEC regulations.
However, this MPC, corresponds to that tabulated in ICRP
Publication 213 which
listed

in Table

the MPLD”

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.

I.

is derived on the basis of the MPLD

The MPLB

The MPLB is not

tions of ICRP, NCRP,
resulations.

is also derived on the basis of
included in either

the recommenda-

the guidelines of FRC, or the AEC

in summary, in TabDle I the MPCa (designated

in AEC reculiations)

is consistant with the MPLD and MPLS.

In

~-

Tadle i the MPLD applies to all forms of ionizing radiation.
Tr2 MPLS anc MPC, avoly soeciftically to Pu-239 in insoludle
a

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form”.

1O/

FRO Report No.

solished

1, Ov.

and its duties

cit., p.

38.

transferred

The FRC has been

to EPA.
II on Permissible
i? 60.
ne 1960.)

13/

ICRP Publication 2, Op.

l3/

Mann, J.B.

and A.R.

Kirchner,

“Evaluation of Lung 3

gS Acute Inhalation of Highly Insolubie Pu02,"
1

. 13, 1967, pp. 877-882.

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te,

£3 could aooly to most other alona-emitting
i
halt-lives, since the aloha particle
reciably from the Pu-239 alpna
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ere ee

ci

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