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B. Lindell (INVITED), The Risk Philosophy of Radiation Protection, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Volume 68, Issue 3-4, 1 December 1996, Pages 157–163, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031859
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Abstract
After a discussion of the meaning of 'risk', the processes of risk assessment and risk evaluation are described. The assumptions behind current radiation risk assessments, which are focused on the probability of attributable death from radiation-induced cancer, are reviewed. These assessments involve projection models to take account of future cancer death in irradiated populations, the transfer of risk estimates between populations and the assumptions necessary to derive risk assessments for low radiation doses from actual observations at high doses. The paper ends with a presentation of the basic radiation protection recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection in the context of a risk philosophy.