BEIR Committee

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The BEIR Committee , full name of the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, is a working group formed by the US Academy of Sciences made up of doctors and physicists that deals with the health risks of ionizing radiation in the low-dose range and in irregular Reports published at intervals. BEIR I (published 1972) was commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency to answer the question of the extent to which low-dose radiation exposure from nuclear tests and nuclear power incidents endanger the population. The assessments of that time have been revised several times. To this day, the BEIR reports are an essential basis of the international radiation protection regulations, including the limit values ​​applicable in Germany according to the Radiation Protection Ordinance .

literature

  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-I: The effects on populations of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. Division of Medical Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2006.
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-II: The effects on populations of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. Draft Report. Division of Medical Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1979.
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-III: The effects on populations of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. Final report. Division of Medical Sciences, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1980.
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-IV: Health risks of radon and other internally deposited alpha-emitters. National Research Council. Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988.
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-V: Health effects of exposures to low levels of ionizing radiation. National Research Council. Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1990.
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-VI: The health effects of exposure to indoor radon. National Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 0-309-05645-4 .
  • BEIR Committee, BEIR-VII: Health risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation. National Academic Press, 2006, ISBN 0-309-09156-X . (on-line)