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National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements* (NCRP)
The NCRP was chartered by Congress in 1964 to collect, analyze,
develop, and disseminate information and recommendations about protection against radiation,
radiation protection measurements and units,
and to provide a meins for cooperation between organizations concerned
with radiation protection.
The NCRP position is that the rational
use of radiation should con-
form to levels of safety to users and the public which are at least
as stringent as those achieved for other powerful agents.
Continuing
and chronic exposure attributable to peaceful uses of ionizing radiation
are assumed.
The NCRP has adopted the assumption of no-threshold dose-effects
relationdbad uses the yorm "dose limits" in providing guidance on
population exposures Radiation exposure #5, Co be kept as low as
practicable.
The numerical values of exposure as presented are to be
interpreted as recommendations not regulations.
Use of the no-threshold
concept involves the thesis that there is no exposure limit free from
some degree of risk.
To establish criteria, NCRP uses the concept of "acceptable risk"
(where the risk is compensated by a demonstrable benefit) broken
down to fit classes of individuals or population groups exposed for
various purposes to different quantities of radiation.
Numerical
*This was formerly the National Committee on Radiation Protection and
Measurements.
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