User contributions
11 August 2021
Occupancy factor
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of time for which a location is occupied by an individual or group. (Adapted from IAEA Glo..."
Nominal value
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A value taken to be a representation of an actual value. Such a value is not precisely known and is inten..."
National radon survey
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A survey undertaken to determine the radon concentration distribution that is representative of radon exp..."
Licensee
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The holder of a current legal document issued by the regulatory body granting authorisation to perform sp..."
Intervention
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Any action intended to reduce or avert exposure or the likelihood of exposure in emergency or existing ex..."
ICRU sphere
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ICRU sphere is a 30-cm tissue-equivalent (ICRU 4-element tissue) sphere. (Adapted from ICRP Public..."
ICRU 4-element tissue
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary ICRU 4-element tissue has a density of 1 g cm^(-3), and a mass composition of 76.2% oxygen, 11.1% carbon,..."
Ground-level enhancement
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Significant elevation in radiation levels at the Earth’s surface due to cosmic rays emitted by solar fl..."
Frequent flyer
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who travels regularly by aircraft, for personal reasons or professional duties, and who may be r..."
Exposed individuals
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who has been, or is to be, exposed to radiation. The Commission distinguishes between three cate..."
Exclusion
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The deliberate omission of a particular type of exposure from the scope of regulatory control on the basi..."
Evacuation
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The rapid, temporary removal of people from an area to avoid or reduce short term radiation exposure in a..."
Designated area
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An area that is either ‘controlled’ or ‘supervised’. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 103, 200..."
Derived consideration reference level
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A dose rate above which there is, for a given taxonomic class, a defined chance of deleterious effects of..."
Derived limit
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A limit on a measurable quantity set, on the basis of a model, such that compliance with the derived limi..."
Derived reference level
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Numerical value expressed in an operational or measurable quantity corresponding to the reference level s..."
Cosmic radiation
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial..."
Containment
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Containment
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial..."
Concentration ratio
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the activity concentration of a radionuclide within an organism (or one specific tissue of t..."
Clearance
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Backscatter detection system
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Accreditation
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Compartment (environmental)
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A representation of a material with (relatively) homogeneous properties (e.g. soil, sediment, air, organi..."
Commissioning
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Testing carried out after new equipment has been installed in order to verify that the equipment is prope..."
Clearance
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Removal of radioactive materials or radioactive objects within authorised practices from any further cont..."
Backscatter detection system
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using ionising radiation by measuring the radiation scattered from an object..."
Allometry
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Relationship between the body mass of an organism and selected (physiological) parameters (e.g. radionucl..."
Additional dose
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary For planned exposure situations the ‘additional dose’ would be added to the existing dose, which can..."
Active detection system
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using radiation to activate the object being screened that in turn causes rad..."
Accreditation
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In the context of ICRP Publication 113, the term ‘accreditation’ means that an organisation has b..."