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Radiation protection principles The radiation protection system recommended by the ICRP in its publication 60 is based on:
This system is transposed into the International BSS and into an Euratom Directive.
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A practice or an activity that involves ionizing radiation is 'justified' if the anticipated benefit is greater than the risk incurred.
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 This means keeping exposure as low as reasonably achievable, economic and social factors being taken into account.
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 Limiting exposure is a means of ensuring for every individual, on the one hand, that deterministic effects will never appear and, on the other, that the residual risk associated with the exposure received is tolerable, bearing in mind the risk assumptions made.
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