Risk estimates for radiation protection / / recommendations of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911006575703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bethesda, MD, : the Council, 1993
• ISBN: 978-0-929600-34-5; 978-1-60119-397-1; 0-929600-34-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Collana: NCRP report ; ; no. 115
• Disciplina: 616.9/89705
• Soggetti: Radiation carcinogenesis - Epidemiology; Ionizing radiation - Safety measures; Health risk assessment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Issued December 31, 1993".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Preface ""; ""Contents ""; ""1. Summary ""; ""2. Introduction ""; ""3. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation Reports ""; ""3.1 Earlier Reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ""; ""3.2 The 1988 Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation ""; ""4. Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations Reports ""; ""4.1 Earlier Reports of the Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations ""; ""4.2 The 1990 Report of the Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations """"5. Comparison of the Reports of the 1988 UNSCEAR and the 1990 BEIR ""; ""5.1 Data Bases and Analysis ""; ""5.2 Reasons for Increase in Risk Estimates ""; ""6. Critiques of the Reports of the 1988 UNSCEAR and the 1990 BEIR ""; ""6.1 Data Bases ""; ""6.2 Dose and Relative Biological Effectiveness ""; ""6.3 Dose-Response Curves ""; ""6.4 Risks at Low-Dose Rates and with Protracted Exposures ""; ""6.5 Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factors ""; ""6.6 Age and Sex Dependence ""; ""6.7 Risk-Projection Models ""; ""6.8 Transfer of Risks to Other Populations """"6.9 Estimates of Risk for Working Populations ""; ""6.10 Competing Causes of Mortality and ; Independence of Risks ""; ""6.11 Summary of New Risk Estimates for Cancer Mortality ""; ""7. ""In Utero"" Irradiation and Childhood Cancer ""; ""8. Radiation Effects in Children of Irradiated Parents ""; ""9. Cancer and Alpha-Particle Emitting Radionuclides ""; ""9.1 Radon ""; ""9.2 Radium ""; ""9.3 Thorium ""; ""9.4 Transuranic Elements ""; ""9.5 Summary ""; ""10. Iodine Radioisotopes and Thyroid Cancer ""; ""11. Hereditary Effects ""; ""11.1 Introduction """"11.2 Estimates of Genetic Risk ""; ""11.3 Doubling Dose and Dominant Diseases ""; ""11.4 Aneuploidy Introduction ""; ""11.5 Translocations ""; ""11.6 Irregularly Inherited Diseases ""; ""11.7 Risk Estimates: Atomic-Bomb Studies ""; ""11.8 Summary of Risk Estimates ""; ""12. Radiation Effects on Brain ""; ""12.1 Radiation Effects on the Brain of the Embryo/Fetus ""; ""12.2 Radiation Effects on Intelligence ""; ""12.3 Studies of Radiation-Therapy Patients ""; ""13. The Relative Contributions of Fatal Cancers of Different Sites to the Detriment Induced by Radiation ""; ""13.1 Introduction """"13.2 Sex ""; ""13.3 Age ""; ""13.4 National Populations and Transfer Models ""; ""13.5 United States Population Versus the International Commission on Radiological Protection ""Average Population"" ""; ""13.6 Expected Years of Life Lost from Fatal Cancer in Organs Versus Sex, Age, Population, and Model ""; ""13.7 Comparison of Estimates of Fatal Cancer Risks in Organs in 1991 With Those of 1977 ""; ""14. Detriment Due to Radiation Exposure at Low Doses ""; ""14.1 Introduction ""; ""14.2 Estimate of the Detriment ""; ""14.3 Tissue Weighting Factors ""; ""14.4 Working Populations ""