European Committee on Radiation Risks
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The European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR) is a committee set up in 1997 to, alongside the European Parliament’s work, discuss the contents of the European Directive 96/29/EURATOM which sets out the basic standards regarding radiation protection in the European Union. The group includes several prominent critics of the dominant view of radiation risk such as articulated by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).
Professor Alice Stewart, the first scientist to establish the health effects of low doses of radiation, was the first Chair of the ECRR. The Chair of the Scientific Committee is Professor Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake. The Scientific Secretary is Dr. Chris Busby.
The Committee has published two major works, the ECRR 2003 Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk: Health Effects of Ionising Radiation Exposure at Low Doses for Radiation Protection Purposes. Regulators' Edition; and ECRR Chernobyl 20 Years On: the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident. Both are discussed on the Committee's website www.euradcom.org. The 2003 Recommendations are published in English, French, Russian, Japanese and Spanish. Chernobyl 20 Years On is available only in English.
[edit] External links
- www.euradcom.org European Committee on Radiation Risk
- Executive Summary of ECRR's findings
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