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2002:19 Expert Judgement Elicitation
The report describes a trial expert panel elicitation with 4 experts in the field of radioecology. Stephen Hora and Mikael Jensen SSI English The report describes a trial expert panel elicitation with 4 experts in the field of radioecology.
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2002:18 A Review of Models for Dose Assessment Employed by SKB in the Renewed Safety Assessment for SFR 1
This document provides a critical review, on behalf of SSI, of the models employed by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) for dose assessment in the renewed safety assessment for the final repository for radioactive operational waste (SFR 1) in Forsmark, Sweden. The main objective of the review is to examine the models used by SKB for radiological dose assessment in a series...
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2002:17 Review of Project SAFE: Comments on biosphere conceptual model description and risk assessment methodology
The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company’s (SKB’s) most recent assessment of the safety of the Forsmark repository for low-level and intermediatelevel waste (Project SAFE) is currently undergoing review by the Swedish regulators. As part of its review, the Swedish Radiation Protection Institute (SSI) identified that two components of SAFE require more detailed review: (i) the...
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2002:16 Epidemiologic Studies of Cellular Telephones and Cancer Risk – A Review
Cellular telephones emit and receive radiofrequency (RF) signals between about 450 and 2200 MHz which fall in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. A RF wave from a cellular telephone contains billions of times less energy than an x-ray and is not capable of inducing ionizations or damaging DNA. The rapid and widespread use of this technology, however, has raised concern over...
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2002:15 Regulator’s Workshop on The Role of Future Society and Biosphere in Demonstrating Compliance with High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Standards and Regulations
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop, co-sponsored by the U.S. Environ-mental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI), held September 11–13, 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden. The invitations to participate in the Workshop were primarily extended to authorities in countries with major nuclear waste programs involving geological disposal and using...
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2002:08 Mammography – recent technical developments and their clinical potential
Purpose The recent technical developments in digital as well as screenfilm X-ray mammography have been reviewed in order to evaluate their clinical potential and to analyse possible lines for future development. Material and methods The scientific literature has been reviewed, conferences covered and contacts with colleagues developed. Companies in the field have been inquired and invited for...
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2001:24 Evaluation of the laboratory resources of the Swedish Radiation Protection Institute. The balance between internal and external laboratory capacity
The Swedish Radiation Protection Institute (SSI) has by directive of September 4, 2000 from the Director-General initiated an evaluation of SSI’s future needs for laboratory resources regarding measurements of radiation and radioactivity. The present document is the final report by the external independent evaluation panel, as presented at SSI, 23 August 2001. The evaluation panel has made...
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2001:22 Work in Support of Biosphere Assessments for Solid Radioactive Waste Disposal. 2. Biosphere FEP List and Biosphere Modelling
In order to assist SSI in its reappraisal of the SFR safety case, QuantiSci has been appointed to develop a systematic framework within which to conduct the review of SKB’s post-closure performance assessment (PA). The biosphere FEP list presented here was developed for use as reference material in conducting the review. SSI wishes to develop an independent PA capability for a time-dependent...
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2001:21 Work in Support of Biosphere Assessments for Solid Radioactive Waste Disposal. 1. Performance Assessments, Requirements and Methodology; Criteria for Radiological Environmental Protection
The first part of this report is intended to assess how the recent Swedish regulatory developments and resulting criteria impose requirements on what should be included in a performance assessment (PA) for the SFR low and medium level waste repository and for a potential deep repository for high level waste. The second part of the report has been prepared by QuantiSci as an input to the...
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2001:11 Ethical Problems in Radiation Protection
In this report the authors survey existing international radiation-protection recommendations and standards of the ICRP, the IAEA, and the ILO. After outlining previous work on the ethics of radiation protection, professional ethics, and the ethics of human radiation experiments, the authors review ethical thinking on seven key issues related to radiation protection and ethics. They formulate...
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