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~~ a bad provided morcspeciEc guidance 10 1hc R.\C in As od~inaltask accent. th~inYbnnation snd tccb~iqu~s provided by R.\C produce worsts cs~ mates' pa~icularly firth~ ox~mpIcs in Section 3, P.\C hss es~matad uncc~aln11es in tbe ~missions ofradionuchdasand providedthslinfdn~sbon~butin calculadng dosc esh mates>~\C cs~m ~es: as required by tbc 1ssk ord~r.
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Tbird, the speciEc~10n of sources OF 1~lonnanon: cannons al snalysls, No ~~ssumpllons und~rI/nG those analyses He inadequate and frequently nonexist~nL Boa example, the committee phen Fund ~ difficult 10 ~0~ ~bcib~r some of the tabular inflation represented calculations made by RL\C or be others or merely abridged vcrs10ns of data presented m ore folly ~ :: ols~bore. ~2n~v~r possible, data used Ed clod should bc Be odgina1 data instead of sumac< publications (such as quarterly reports)
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Pa~c 3-14> S~c~on S.~.~, L~m ~ indicates ~ $~c m poraI scopc~ of 12 ye~rs' but w bicb 12 P~c S-~? rcf~rs 1d a ~ m bstion of ITCalc 10 1bc ~assessm cn1,s 1e m pors1 scope (Ocl-45 1brough Dec-61~.
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~ould giveause~1 csEm~e ofa personal dose.
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TTnre~int1~ in s nersoni1 dose lead to \vorkcr OI [b~nl~[ milil~ry personDcl 1~ ~vEom c~ncer has been diagnosod. Tbo uncedainty i~ an i~dividual~s dose ~iD al~ays be lar~r lhan 1he unce~ainty in 1be ~onulabon avara~c dose, so 1be unce~ainly , _ lh~ atibo~oDulabonl~veL If the number ofe~res~e~in the nnnul~donfseshmaiedioLe exc~ss nu~nber otcases: of excess ~sk or of prohabi~ty of cius~ho; 10 thc id~ tbat1bc lass infbtnna(Qn is ~ o~vn about ap individu8T1bc m ore ~kely Drobibi~tY otcausahon~itis possible to ~rg~e in f~vor oEreIyin~ o~ collecEve doses ~hen good d~sim etry is lacking.
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: :: . ~or 1ho gas cous exposur~s; much o1 tbe ~o~ n~cess~ry 10 calcula1c population exposure b~ aL~ady beon p~r~ed as p~ of 1bis s~dy i~ 1bat dose estimates obt~ined und~r s sc@n~os on ~ ~-b~yc~ b~sis may be mulliplied by 1bc ~umb~r of p~rsons ~orkigg in a ~vcr For lLc ~xposure to l=ge p~ |
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W>hib~1ln~nn~ion~one could address the question ofiLc frequency of acute doses 10 padicularorgans1~at would be bigh enough 10 cause dcicn~inisEc epoch otclinicsl ~gniEcancc. Thcin~nnaLonin ACRE Report 130 ACRE, 1999)
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