Radiological basis for the determination of exemption levels
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N. Dymke
Abstract
The Radiation Protection Ordinance implements a recommendation developed by the International Commission on Radiological Protection on terms of granting a practice to be carried out without reporting and prior authorisation, i. e. on conditions of exemption of justified practices from regulatory control. According to this recommendation, a practice may be exempted from regulatory control, if the radiological risk associated with the practice is, under normal conditions as well as in diverging situations, sufficiently low as not to warrant regulatory concern, and there are no reasonable control procedures that can achieve a significant reduction of the radiological risk. This article deals with the radiological criteria for the derivation of exemption values below which regulatory procedures are unwarranted, and goes into further subjects (design approval, consumer goods) for which the concept of exemption is applicable.
Abstract
Die Strahlenschutzverordnung setzt eine Empfehlung der Internationalen Strahlenschutzkommission um, die sich mit den Bedingungen des genehmigungsfreien Umgangs, d. h. der Freistellung gerechtfertigter Anwendungen von der behördlichen Kontrolle befasst. Gemäß dieser Empfehlung soll eine Anwendung von der behördlichen Kontrolle freigestellt werden können, wenn das mit der Anwendung verbundene radiologische Risiko sowohl unter normalen Bedingungen als auch in davon abweichenden Situationen so gering ist, dass kein Regelungsbedarf besteht und es keine vernünftigen Kontrollverfahren gibt, die eine wesentliche Verringerung des radiologischen Risikos erreichen können. Der Beitrag befasst sich mit den radiologischen Kriterien für die Ableitung der Freigrenzen, unterhalb derer eine Freistellung erfolgen kann, und geht auf weitere Sachverhalte ein (Bauartzulassung, Konsumgüter), in denen das Freistellungskonzept Anwendung findet.
References
1 Principles for the Exemption of Radiation Sources and Practices from Regulatory Control. IAEA Safety Series Nr. 89, Vienna 1988Search in Google Scholar
2 1990 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 60, 1991Search in Google Scholar
3 Principles and Methods for Establishing Concentrations and Quantities (Exemption values) Below which Reporting is not Required in the European Directive. CEC, Radiation Protection-65, Doc. XI-028/93, 1993Search in Google Scholar
© 2002 Carl Hanser Verlag, München
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