[en] The purpose of this paper is to provide a author capability of current author indexing practices in journal literature indexing practices in 'Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology of Japan'. This Journal employed keywords freely assigned by author and not taken from INIS Thesaurus or other vocabulary list. Author examined 413 literatures, comparing keywords assigned by the literatures' authors with descriptor's (ATOMINDEX) assigned by an experienced professional indexer. The results of the comparisons showed that the average set of terms assigned by author included about 70% of all the terms assigned to the same literature by the professional indexer. Authors eventually would contribute, for the most effective point to create reference to information is at the time of its generation. Consequently, it may be possible to transfer them easily to descriptors in every secondary information system. (author)

[en] This work contains the main topics about the activity of the regulatory authority in the workshop discussion. Authorizations

[en] This paper presents in a summary form the topics covered in Topical Session 7. The following major topics were covered: Scope of comprehensive programme and practical implementation, including a graded approach to regulatory requirements; Licensing of cross-border situations; Quality assurance issues for regulators; Correct balance between enforcement and co-operation; Source inventory; Independence of regulatory bodies and how the need to develop a 'critical mass' of expertise may have an impact on this. There were 23 contributed papers from 20 countries submitted to this session, as follows: Nine papers from eight African Member States: Angola, Cameroon, Egypt, Kenya, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Nigeria, Sudan (two), Tunisia; Seven papers from six Asian Member States: Indonesia (two), Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Yemen; Five papers from four European Member States: Czech Republic (two), Estonia, Ireland, Russian Federation; Two papers from two Central American Member States: Cuba, Nicaragua. Since there are large differences in the amount and variety of radiation sources among individual countries and each of them has some specific features, a regional grouping of the submitted papers was selected in preparing the summary of the topics covered by this session

[en] This is an extract summarising the activities of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority during the year 1977, as published in the 23rd Annual Report in September 1977. Headings include - Nuclear power development; Work outside the nuclear power programme; members, organisation and staff; Staff health and safety; Finance; and Associated companies. (U.K.)

[en] It is the water authority that has the competence to determine the permissible limits of radioactivity in the effluents discharged, by a nuclear power plant into a river, and the water authority has the right to fix such limits without taking into consideration any decisions on permissible contamination of effluents taken by the nuclear licensing authority. Judgement of the Federal Administrative Court, of September 18, 1987 - 4 C 36.84 - (VGH Kassel). (orig.)

[en] Letter to the editor

[en] 'Everyone in the world is exposed to radiation from natural and artificial sources. Any realistic system of radiological protection must have a clearly defined scope if it is not to apply to the whole of mankind's activities'. This quote, from ICRP Publication 60 (ICRP, 1991), remains apposite. The main tool for defining scope is the concept of exclusion: situations, sources or exposures that are excluded from the system of radiological protection are, to all intents and purposes, ignored. Sources and exposures that are not excluded are within the scope of the system of protection and by inference within regulatory systems implementing ICRP recommendations. These sources and exposures should be subject to appropriate authorization by the relevant regulatory authority. In order to avoid excessive regulatory procedures, however, provisions should be made for granting an exemption in cases where it is clear that regulatory provisions are unnecessary. Exemption is a regulatory tool intended to facilitate efficient use of regulatory resources. Nevertheless, the regulatory act of granting exemptions is, in itself, a form of authorization and the material or situation so exempted remains within the regulatory system. This distinction between exclusion and exemption is an important one. Historically, the concept of exclusion has been applied to sources or exposures that are essentially unamenable to control because of their widespread nature. The usually quoted examples are cosmic radiation at ground level and ⁴⁰K in the body. Clearly, many exposures from natural sources could fall into this category. The challenges are firstly to establish a sound basis for deciding which should be excluded and which should be controlled, and secondly to see if the concept could or should be applied to artificial sources and exposures. These two questions are the subject of this paper. (author)

[en] The authors reply to a letter by Johnson, C.J. which was critical of their report of mortality of plutonium workers at the Rocky Flats Plant. The letter clarifies the method by which the cohort was defined in their study, defends their use of urine bioassays for the assessment of plutonium body burden, and suggests that the report makes a significant contribution to the literature on the potential plutonium has to induce human disease. They state that the results of their studies suggest that increased risk for several cancers cannot be ruled out for persons with plutonium body burdens of 2 nanocuries or more. Their previous recommendation that studies of workers should be continued in future years was reemphasized

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