Radiological Assessments for the Resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1994) / Chapter Skim
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7. DOSE LIMITS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
7. DOSE LIMITS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Pages 81-82
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The annual dose limit recommended for members of the public by ICRP is not intended to be directly applicable to decisions on when to return to an area that has been evacuated because of radiological concerns raised by potential or actual radiation contamination. In the latter circumstances, {CRP recommends that the decision to return to a previously evacuated area is justified when being back is more beneficial to the people involved than remaining away.
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ICRP recognizes that numerical criteria -- action levels -- are often helpful in making decisions; in this instance, such criteria have been defined in the MOU. Implicit in the wording of the MOU is that the parties to it believed that a net benefit would accrue to the displaced population when there could be assurance that, on their return to Rongelap, the maximum annual dose received by any person and the concentration of transuranics everywhere in soil had naturally decreased or had been reduced to stated action levels.
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