Proceedings contains material Opening session; Opening statements; Reports from international organizations on biological effects of ionizing radiation (Background Session 1); Reports on related international conferences (Background Session 2); Meolecular mechanisms of radiation effects: point and clastogenic mutations (Forum 1); Adaptive responses: enhanced repair and apoptosis (Forum 2); Mult…
Proceedings contains material Introductory paper; Radiation accident case histories (Session I and II); Organization and planning (Session III – V); Training and exercising (Session VI); Technical aspects of accident situation detection and assessment (Session VII); and Accident situation analysis (Session VIII). (Jml)
Proceedings contains material Introductory paper; General aspects (Session I); Direct methods of assessment (Session II and III); Monitoring for plutonium (Session IV); Assessment programmes and experience (Session V and VI); Codes, methods, models (Session VII); and Selected studies (Session VIII). (Jml)
Proceedings contains material Review; Ionizing radiation as a quarantine treatment for caribbean fruit flies in graperfruits, carambolas and mangoes; Gamma irradiation as a commodity treatment against the Queensland fruit fly in fresh fruit; Effects of ionizing energy on fruit flies and seed weevil in Australian mangoes; Gamma irradiation as a quarantine treatment for carambola, papaya and mang…
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The revised recommendations of the ICRP in its Publication 60 have led to significant changes in attitudes and to a new culture of radiological protection. Lower dose limits and the requirement to ensure that exposure is as low as reasonably achievable means that detailed attention must be given to radiological aspects from design, through commissioning, operation and maintenance, to eventual d…
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