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The data below are the 'raw' extracts from the documents and/or papers. Please refer to the last column for the reference and obtain the full text if required. Please also let me know if there are any mistakes here. |
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Internatonal
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Basic Safety Standards (BSS) would apply to any activity where, before it starts, control measures can be implemented to keep doses within defined limits. Such activities would include the production and use of radiation or radioactive substances for medical, industrial and research purposes. The standards would also be applied, where feasible, to the control of exposure to natural sources of radiation (when so stipulated by the relevant regulatory authority). |
I-01
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2
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Internatonal
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
IAEA BSS history By the end of 1980s, a vast amount of new information had accumulated, prompting a new look at the standards governing protection against ionising radiation. First and foremost, a re-evaluation of the radioepidemiological findings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki suggested that exposure to low level radiation carried a higher risk than previously estimated. Other developments - notably the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and at Chernobyl in 1986 with its unprecedented transboundary contamination - and a number of accidents with radiation sources used in medicine and industry had a great effect on the public perception of the potential danger from radiation exposure. Furthermore, the decade saw the rediscovery of natural radiation as a cause of concern for health. Following these developments, the ICRP in 1990 revised its standing recommendations. The concerned organisations of the United Nations and other multinational agencies promptly followed by triggering a review of their own standards. Thus, the BSS were jointly developed by six organisations: The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, FAO The IAEA The International Labour Organisation (ILO) The Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD/NEA) The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO), and The World Health Organisation (WHO) |
I-02
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3
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Australia
All jurisdictions have endorsed the proposal to develop a national guidance document, the National Directory for Radiation Protection. Once developed, the National Directory would provide an overall agreed framework for radiation protection, together with clear regulatory statements able to be adopted within existing Commonwealth and State/Territory legislative frameworks. The priority areas include more consistent legislative frameworks, and ways to reduce the existing barriers to inter-jurisdictional movements of sources, equipment and trained professionals. A National Competition Principles Review of Radiation Protection, which will include all jurisdictions except Queensland, will also be examining legislation in all States and Territories to assess the impacts on business and the community. |
L-02
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4
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Australia
The regulatory elements of the National Directory would be adopted into each jurisdiction as soon as possible following agreement by the RHC, relevant stakeholders and AHMC. Other agencies that have a legislated responsibility for aspects of radiation safety would be invited to have active involvement, including the development of the National Directory, in progressing national uniformity. Further consideration would be given to adopting uniform national regulatory controls following completion of the draft National Directory. Consideration would also be given to the recommendations of the planned national competition policy review of radiation protection. An indicative draft of the National Directory has been prepared as has a background paper on the implementation of national uniformity. |
D-01
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5
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Netherlands
Initially dose is calculated for every location irrespective of presence of residence. The actual dose is calculated using "Actual exposure Correction Factors" (ACF's): · Source transported by road - ACF=0.001 · Waterway used by occupational (transit) shipping; parking lot; main road outside residential area or road in industrial area; agricultural area (meadow) - ACF=0.01 · Harbour for passing ships; recreation area except camping (woods, parks, dune, water, beach) - ACF=0.03 · Harbour for yachts, regular harbour for occupational shipping, vegetable gardens, secondary road in the vicinity of residential area) - ACF=0.1 · Camping site; other industry or offices, work inside - ACF=0.1 · Other industry, work outside - ACF=1.0 |
P-03
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Netherlands
Two dose limits are defined: The cumulative individual dose limit for members of general public due to all sources = 1 mSv/year. The individual dose limit per source is set at 100 microSv/year, because it is assumed that a member of general public is exposed to a maximum of ten sources simultaneously. |
B-02
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Malaysia
Regulatory control of NORM-related activities extends to industries engaged in tin smelting, utilisation of materials containing radioactive accessory minerals (particularly those associated with monazite, titanium dioxide and zircon), production of drilling muds (barytes), grits for grit-blasting operations and oil and gas operations. In addition - regulatory control is also placed upon future utilisation of by-products such as gypsum, iron oxides, tin slag and sludge/scale from oil/gas operations. |
B-04
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