I.
Introduction
This Report is written in support of a petition by
the Natural Resources Defense Council
Regulatory Commission
(MRC)
(NRDC)
to the Nuclear
requesting a reduction in the
maximum permissible occupational whole body radiation exposure.
The present standards for occupational exposure are based on
Still current recommendations.of the National Council on
Padiation Pretection and Measurements
national Commission
(NCRP)
and the Inter-
cn Radiological Protection
in 1958 and 1953, resvectively.
(ICRP)
adopted
The NRDC petition and this
Report were promsted by consideration of the Latest information on tne Biological effects of radiation.
This infor-
mation indicates that the biological effects are greater than
was assumed in 1958 and 1959 when the existing standards were
recommended.
‘The latest Gata have been reviewed by a committee
of the ICRP and by the BEIR Comaittce of the U.S. National
Acesgemy of Sciencas
(NAS).
Tne BEIR Committes was prin-
cipvally concerned with the exposure of the general population
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