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- 14:56, 12 August 2021 Surface contamination (hist) [353 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The presence of unwanted levels of radioactive material on the surface of structures, areas, objects, bio...")
- 14:55, 12 August 2021 Superposition principle (hist) [400 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The superposition principle is based on additivity of absorbed dose and means that the total dose in a ta...")
- 14:44, 12 August 2021 Employer (hist) [597 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An organisation, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institutio...")
- 00:02, 12 August 2021 Security screening (hist) [745 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An activity undertaken to detect unintended, unwanted, or deliberately introduced objects or materials th...")
- 00:01, 12 August 2021 Security (hist) [416 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The prevention and detection of, and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorised access, illegal transfer,...")
- 00:00, 12 August 2021 Sheltering (hist) [549 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The short-term use of a structure to reduce the intake of airborne radionuclides by inhalation and for th...")
- 23:59, 11 August 2021 Solar flare (hist) [828 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A large emission of energetic solar particles ejected into space by the Sun. (Adapted from ICRP Public...")
- 23:38, 11 August 2021 Sealed source (hist) [318 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A radioactive source in which the radioactive material is permanently sealed in a capsule or closely bond...")
- 23:37, 11 August 2021 Source-related assessment (hist) [365 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A radioactive source in which the radioactive material is permanently sealed in a capsule or closely bond...")
- 23:36, 11 August 2021 Region (hist) [536 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A group of countries usually defined by geographical proximity and/or cultural similarities that agree t...")
- 23:35, 11 August 2021 Safety (hist) [306 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Lorem ipsum... (Adapted from ICRP Publication 135, 2017) '''Return to Glossary'''...")
- 23:34, 11 August 2021 Reference value (hist) [2,027 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The value of a parameter recommended by the Commission for use in a bio- kinetic model in the absence of...")
- 23:31, 11 August 2021 Redox (hist) [329 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Oxidation–reduction reactions that describe chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation numb...")
- 23:31, 11 August 2021 Radon-prone area (hist) [363 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A geographic area or an administrative region defined on the basis of surveys indicating a significantl...")
- 23:30, 11 August 2021 Radon progeny (hist) [664 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Short-lived radioactive decay products of radon-222. In the context of radon exposure, the following prog...")
- 23:30, 11 August 2021 Radiological attack (hist) [476 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Deliberate and malicious use of radioactive material intended to cause harm to individuals and/or communi...")
- 23:29, 11 August 2021 Radioactive waste (hist) [639 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radioactive material in gaseous, liquid, or solid form for which no further use is foreseen. Controls for...")
- 23:28, 11 August 2021 Protection quantities (hist) [1,530 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dose quantities which the Commission has developed for radiological protection, and that allow quantifica...")
- 23:25, 11 August 2021 Principles of protection (hist) [903 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A set of principles that apply to radiation sources and to the individual in controllable exposure situat...")
- 23:25, 11 August 2021 Practice (hist) [738 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Human activities that increase the exposure of individuals or the number of individuals so exposed either...")
- 23:22, 11 August 2021 Optimisation of protection (hist) [1,785 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The likelihood of incurring exposure the number of people exposed and the magnitude of their individual d...")
- 23:18, 11 August 2021 Collective dose (hist) [518 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An expression for the aggregate radiation dose incurred by a population defined as the product of the nu...")
- 20:23, 11 August 2021 Operating management (hist) [916 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The person or group of persons that directs, controls, and assesses an organisation at the highest level....")
- 20:22, 11 August 2021 Occupancy factor (hist) [563 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of time for which a location is occupied by an individual or group. (Adapted from IAEA Glo...")
- 20:21, 11 August 2021 Nominal value (hist) [330 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A value taken to be a representation of an actual value. Such a value is not precisely known and is inten...")
- 20:20, 11 August 2021 National radon survey (hist) [340 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A survey undertaken to determine the radon concentration distribution that is representative of radon exp...")
- 20:20, 11 August 2021 Licensee (hist) [358 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The holder of a current legal document issued by the regulatory body granting authorisation to perform sp...")
- 20:18, 11 August 2021 Intervention (hist) [575 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Any action intended to reduce or avert exposure or the likelihood of exposure in emergency or existing ex...")
- 20:17, 11 August 2021 ICRU sphere (hist) [444 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ICRU sphere is a 30-cm tissue-equivalent (ICRU 4-element tissue) sphere. (Adapted from ICRP Public...")
- 20:14, 11 August 2021 ICRU 4-element tissue (hist) [568 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary ICRU 4-element tissue has a density of 1 g cm^(-3), and a mass composition of 76.2% oxygen, 11.1% carbon,...")
- 20:12, 11 August 2021 Ground-level enhancement (hist) [655 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Significant elevation in radiation levels at the Earth’s surface due to cosmic rays emitted by solar fl...")
- 20:11, 11 August 2021 Frequent flyer (hist) [476 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who travels regularly by aircraft, for personal reasons or professional duties, and who may be r...")
- 20:09, 11 August 2021 Exposed individuals (hist) [727 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who has been, or is to be, exposed to radiation. The Commission distinguishes between three cate...")
- 20:08, 11 August 2021 Exclusion (hist) [534 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The deliberate omission of a particular type of exposure from the scope of regulatory control on the basi...")
- 20:07, 11 August 2021 Evacuation (hist) [698 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The rapid, temporary removal of people from an area to avoid or reduce short term radiation exposure in a...")
- 20:03, 11 August 2021 Designated area (hist) [254 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An area that is either ‘controlled’ or ‘supervised’. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 103, 200...")
- 20:02, 11 August 2021 Derived consideration reference level (hist) [976 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A dose rate above which there is, for a given taxonomic class, a defined chance of deleterious effects of...")
- 20:00, 11 August 2021 Derived limit (hist) [347 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A limit on a measurable quantity set, on the basis of a model, such that compliance with the derived limi...")
- 20:00, 11 August 2021 Derived reference level (hist) [311 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Numerical value expressed in an operational or measurable quantity corresponding to the reference level s...")
- 19:57, 11 August 2021 Cosmic radiation (hist) [1,439 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial...")
- 19:55, 11 August 2021 Containment (hist) [557 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial...")
- 19:52, 11 August 2021 Concentration ratio (hist) [594 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the activity concentration of a radionuclide within an organism (or one specific tissue of t...")
- 19:44, 11 August 2021 Compartment (environmental) (hist) [360 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A representation of a material with (relatively) homogeneous properties (e.g. soil, sediment, air, organi...")
- 19:42, 11 August 2021 Commissioning (hist) [370 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Testing carried out after new equipment has been installed in order to verify that the equipment is prope...")
- 19:42, 11 August 2021 Clearance (hist) [941 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Removal of radioactive materials or radioactive objects within authorised practices from any further cont...")
- 19:38, 11 August 2021 Backscatter detection system (hist) [775 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using ionising radiation by measuring the radiation scattered from an object...")
- 19:37, 11 August 2021 Allometry (hist) [356 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Relationship between the body mass of an organism and selected (physiological) parameters (e.g. radionucl...")
- 19:36, 11 August 2021 Additional dose (hist) [398 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary For planned exposure situations the ‘additional dose’ would be added to the existing dose, which can...")
- 19:35, 11 August 2021 Active detection system (hist) [358 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using radiation to activate the object being screened that in turn causes rad...")
- 19:33, 11 August 2021 Accreditation (hist) [717 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In the context of ICRP Publication 113, the term ‘accreditation’ means that an organisation has b...")