UNSCEAR
The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of atomic radiation ( United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation , UNSCEAR) deals with the effects of nuclear technology and radioactivity. Currently, 27 countries send members to the committee, which was founded in 1955. It meets once a year (most recently in May 2014 in Vienna) and publishes reports at irregular intervals that serve the ICRP as one of the bases for its recommendations on national radiation protection legislation. To date (2014), 20 reports have been published that are also available on the Internet. Germany has been involved since 1973. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection determines the respective delegation.
For historical and economic reasons, the reports of the United States Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) are also of great importance; For example, the current recommendations of the ICRP on limit values for occupational radiation exposure (1991) are based on the reports BEIR-V 1990 and UNSCEAR 1993.