Report on the 1969 Meeting of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)

The Commission and its committees met in Oxford, England, in April 1969 to review work being carried out by committees and task groups, and to plan the ICRP's program of work during the coming years. Work on a number of topics is near to completion in the task groups that have been set up to study specific problems, and it is expected that reports on many of the following subjects will be ready for publication within the next year: Protection of the patient in radionuclide investigations Protection of the patient in radiodiagnostic procedures Protection against external radiations (a comprehensive revision of ICRP Publications 3 and 4) Radiation protection in educational establishments Radiation dose from neutrons and protons in the energy range from 400 MeV to 2 GeV Biological effects of inhaled radioactive particulates Anatomical, physiological, and metabolic characteristics for the “Reference Man” Metabolism of plutonium and related elements, and their compounds Protection against radon, thoron, and th...