BEIR III
Creators
- 1. UKAEA Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. Nuclear Environment Branch
Description
The most recent report prepared by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation entitled The Effects on Populations of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionising Radiations (BEIR III) is reviewed. With respect to the somatic effects of low doses of those types of radiation that are of primary practical importance when considering possible environmental and public health impacts of nuclear electricity generation - the low LET radiations, the final report gives a range of risk estimates rather than a set of numbers which were agreed to by all but two members of the full committee, whose dissenting statements are also included in the final report. The genetic effects of low levels of radiation were arrived at by two different estimating methods which are claimed to be in reasonable agreement. Results given in BEIR III are compared with those from BEIR I (1972), UNSCEAR (1977) and ICRP (1977). (U.K.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Atom (London)
- Journal Issue
- no.288
- Series
- Atom (London).
- ISSN
- 0004-7015
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 12584991
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DELAYED RADIATION EFFECTS; GENETIC RADIATION EFFECTS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; ICRP; LOW DOSE IRRADIATION; NEOPLASMS; RISK ANALYSIS; SOMATICALLY SIGNIFICANT DOSE; UNSCEAR; US NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DISEASES; GENETIC EFFECTS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; IRRADIATION; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; POPULATIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION EFFECTS; UNITED NATIONS; US ORGANIZATIONS