2005

2005 Recommendations of the ICRP - Draft for consultation and responses

April 2003

ICRP Memorandum: The evolution of the system of radiological protection: the justification for new ICRP recommendations The International Commission on Radiological Protection J. Radiol. Prot. 23 No 2 (June 2003) 129-142 and two invited editorials are available on the Featured articles page of the Journal of Radiological Protection

June 2001

A report on progress towards new recommendations: A communication from the International Commission on Radiological Protection, June 2001
Institute of Physics Publishing site
Summary - In the June 2001 issue of the Journal of Radiological Protection, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) reports on progress towards new ICRP Recommendations to replace the 1990 Recommendations. The article is freely available on the Journal's website. Provided here is a brief summary of the ICRP article.

The Commission now indicates how it will be feasible to develop its Next Recommendations based on an individual-related philosophy using the concept of controllability of sources. For each previously justified, controllable, source the first consideration in the proposed system of protection would be to establish restrictions on the dose to individuals and then to make exposures as low as reasonably practicable. Thus a major change from Publication 60 would be to place optimisation after individual protective action to emphasise individual-related over societal-based ethics. This evolution follows from the introduction of the concept of Dose Constraint, a restriction on the maximum individual dose from a single source, which overrides the result of the optimisation process.

May 2000

Papers by Roger H Clarke, Chairman, International Commission on Radiological Protection, presented at IRPA10 in Hiroshima, May 2000:

• The current activities of the ICRP (pdf 50KB Help)
• Progress towards new recommendations from the ICRP (pdf 80KB Help) includes discussion of the question as to whether to develop an individual-based protection philosophy, as outlined in the discussion paper on Controllable Dose