Independent Nuclear Consultants

The future development of radiation protection standards may depend on emerging European technology-based standards such as BAT, rather than present day risk management controls such as ALARP. Although BAT and ALARP already share much common ground the factors which influence BAT are different and much wider than ALARP which mostly focuses on health protection. This paper presented to the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP) explains why BAT, rather than ALARP or BPM or BPEO, could be the main driver for nuclear environmental protection over the next few years.
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