Abstract: The aim of this work was to determine the validity of the direct transfer of the recommendations of the ICRP on the nominal risk coefficients and tissue weighting factors in a future revision of the national Radiation Safety Standards (NRB). The article compares the background age and sex distribution, and morbidity and mortality rates of the nominal population, the ICRP used to develop the latest fundamental recommendations, with appropriate indicators for the populations of Russia and Japan as the main source of data for assessment of radioge...
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Demography
Statistics
Environmental health