~2ao
and,
in this regard,
indicated that the existing exposure
standard was unnccessarily high.
3/
The ICR? Committee,
while declining to make any recommendations, vresented a
calculation to demonstrate now the new data on the biological
effects of radiation could be used to lower the existing
whole body expcsure Standards by a factor of ten.
4/
The
reduction reauestcd in this Report corzessordés closely to
this factor of ten in the ICRP Committee analysis.
In January,
1971,
while not recommending an overall
NCRP recommended
C
that the occupacional excosure
to one tenth the present
r
c4
“
in this Resort would also
of this =} Reccrt,
or
exposure
somatic and
we
snall
genetic injury
at the current maxinum permissible exvosure limit and compare
this risk with those encountered in other occupations.
analysis
high.
This
will serve to indicate that the exvosure limit is too
In Section TIL, we shall vresent our requested modifi-
3/ ibid., p.2.
2/
ICR? - Pudlication 14, on.
5/
iUCRP Resort No.39,
Basic
cit., Adpendin Iv.
rn
National Couneil en Radiation Pr
Vashingtoa, D. C., 1971, 2p.92-93.