Risk Assessment

Date:
c.1950s-1980s
Reference:
PP/EEP/D
Part of:
Pochin, Sir Edward Eric
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Description

ICRP uses the word 'risk' to mean the probability that a given individual will incur a deleterious effect as a result of an exposure to radiation. It follows that the concepts of risk and 'detriment' (a quantity characterising the whole radiation harm) are interrelated.

Publication/Creation

c.1950s-1980s

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