Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2012. Vol. 57. No. 5. P. 11-19

RADIATION SAFETY

M.Ph. Kiselev¹, T.V. Azizova², A.V. Akleyev³, R.M. Aleksakhin⁴, V.K. Ivanov⁵, A.N. Koterov⁶, I.I. Kryshev⁷, B.K. Lobach⁸, O.A. Pavlovsky⁹, S.A. Romanov², A.V. Sazhin⁶, S.M. Shinkarev⁶

On the 59th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) (Vienna, 21-25 May 2012)

1. Federal Medical-Biological Agency of Russia (FMBA of Russia), Moscow; 2. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute of FMBA of Russia, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Region; 3. Urals Research Center of Radiation Medicine of FMBA of Russia, Chelyabinsk; 4. Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology of Russian Agricultural Academy, Obninsk; 5. Medical Radiological Research Centre of MHR, Obninsk; 6. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of FMBA of Russia, Moscow. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; 7. Research & Production Association “Typhoon” of Roshydromet, Obninsk; 8. Nuclear Energy State Corporation “Rosatom”, Moscow; 9. Nuclear Safety Institute of RAS, Moscow.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. On the UN General Assembly resolution 66/70 (December 2011)
2. Discussion of scientific reports on nine projects:

• Report R.686 “The Ability to attribute risks and effects to radiation exposure” and report R.687 “Uncertainties in risk estimates for cancer due to exposure to ionizing radiation”
• Report R.688 “Radiation exposures from electricity generation” and report R.689 “Methodology for estimating human exposures due to radioactive discharges”
• Report R.690 “Biological effects of selected internal emitters (tritium, uranium)”
• Report R.691 “Levels and effects of radiation exposure due to the nuclear accident after the 2011 great east-Japan earthquake and tsunami”
• Report R.692 “Effects of radiation exposure on children”
• Report R.693 “Epidemiology of low-dose-rate exposures of the public to natural and artificial environmental sources of radiation” and report R.694 “Mechanisms of radiation actions at low doses”

3. Consideration of the Report of the UNSCEAR Secretariat
4. Recommendations for future work program
5. Preparation of a report of UNSCEAR to the next session of the UN General Assembly. General conclusions

Key words: risk assessment, risk index, methodology, health risk standard, harmonization, decision making principle

REFERENCES

1. United Nations. UNSCEAR-2008. Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. Fifty-sixth session (2008 Jul. 10-18). General Assembly Official Records Sixty-third Session. Supplement No. 46. United Nations. New York. 2008. 38 p.
2. Kisielev M.Ph, Kotenko K.V., Akleev A.V. On the 59th Session of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) (Vienna, 2008 Jul. 10-18). Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2009. Vol. 54. No. 1. P. 61-75.
3. United Nations. UNSCEAR 1993. Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annex. Annex F. Influence of dose and dose rate on stochastic effects of radiation. United Nations. New York. 1993. P. 619-727.
4. United Nations. UNSCEAR 1986. Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annexes. Annex B. Dose - relationships for radiation-induced cancer. United Nations. New York. 1986. P. 165-262.
5. United Nations. UNSCEAR 2000. Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annex G. Biological effects at low radiation doses. New York. 2000. P. 73-175.
6. United Nations. UNSCEAR 2006. Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annexes. Annex C. Non-targeted and delayed effects of exposure to ionizing radiation. United Nations. New York. 2009. P. 1-79.
7. International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 99. Low-dose Extrapolation of Radiationrelated Cancer Risk. Annals of the ICRP. Ed. by J. Valentin. Amsterdam - New-York: Elsevier. 2006. 147 p.
8. International Commission on Radiological Protection. ICRP Publication 103. The 2007 Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection. Annals of the ICRP. Ed. by J. Valentin. Amsterdam - New York: Elsevier. 2007. 329 p.
9. BEIR VII Report 2006. Phase 2. Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation. Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation. National Research Council. [cited 2012 Jun. 20]. Available from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11340.html.