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Radiation Science Lessons

NCRP Report No. 160 Section 3 Pie Charts:

Fig. 8.2. Distribution of S or E_US for the major sources of exposure for 2006. The percent values have been rounded to the nearest 1 %. The total for S is 1,870,000 person-Sv and the total for E_US is 6.2 mSv, using a U.S. population of 300 million for 2006. The other background category consists of the external (space and terrestrial) and internal subcategories [see Table 8.1 for the values of S (person-sievert) and E_US (millisievert)].

Fig. 3.19. Percent contribution of various sources of exposure to the annual E_Exp for ubiquitous background radiation (3.1 mSv) for 2006. The same percentages apply for S and E_US. The percent values have been rounded to the nearest 1 %, except those <1 % [see Table 3.14 for the values of E_Exp (millisievert)].

Power Reactor Section Correspondence

Presentations by Members of the Power Reactor Section

The Power Reactor Section presented a Special Session at the Annual Health Physics Society in Minneapolis on July 14, 2009, "Radiation Protection in a Nuclear Power Renaissance". The session was co-chaired by Roger Shaw and Larry Haynes, and included 16 presentations, including talks from those representing NEA/OECD, NEI, EPRI, INPO, NRC, DOE, academia and the nuclear industry.

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