Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection
Second Asian Regional Conference - Tokyo, Japan 28-29 July 2004
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One of the main challenges facing radiological protection experts is how to integrate radiological protection within modern concepts of and approaches to risk governance. It is within this context that the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) decided to develop new general recommendations to replace its Publication 60 recommendations of 1990. In the process of developing these new recommendations, the views of the ICRP have evolved significantly, largely due to stakeholder involvement that has been actively solicited by the ICRP. In this regard, it was upheld during the First Asian Regional Conference organised by the NEA in October 2002 that the implementation of the new system must allow for regional, societal and cultural differences.
In order to ensure appropriate consideration of these differences, the NEA organised the Second Asian Regional Conference on the Evolution of the System of Radiological Protection. Held in Tokyo on 28-29 July 2004, the conference included presentations by the ICRP Chair as well as by radiological experts from Australia, China, Japan and Korea. Within their specific cultural and socio-political milieu, Asia-Pacific and western ways of thought on how to improve the current system of radiological protection were presented and discussed. These ways of thinking, along with a summary of the conference results, are described in these proceedings.
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Views on Where the ICRP Will Go from Here
Nuclear Energy Agency
am enormously grateful for the opportunity given to me and ICRP to engage with this stakeholder group in order to ensure that we can go forward profitably with the desired new recommendations. As mentioned yesterday we will be asking you all send your comments to ICRP. They will be posted on the ICRP website. All the received comments will be available for you to see.
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