RADIATION PROTECTION ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (2): 101-107.

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IAEA radiation safety standard committee and recent concerns on radiation safety issues

LIU Liye1,5,6, CHEN Faguo1, ZHANG Jintao2, TUO Fei3, TAO Weiding4, JIN Haijing1   

  1. 1. China Institute for Radiation Protection,Taiyuan 030006;
    2. China National Nuclear Corporation,Beijing 100822;
    3. National Institute for Radiological Protection, China CDC,Beijing 100088;
    4. Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment,Beijing 100082;
    5. Shanxi Key Laboratory of Radiation Safety and Protection, Taiyuan 030006;
    6. CNNC Key Laboratory of Radiation Protection Technology,Taiyuan 030006
  • Received:2024-09-04 Online:2025-03-20 Published:2025-03-18

Abstract: The IAEA Safety Standards Series with 145 safety standards and a logical top-down relationship have been largely accomplished according to the 2008 Long Term Structure. Meanwhile, a new Long term structure looking into next 10-15 years will be ready in 2026, fitting to the emerging of artificial intelligence, climate change, new types of reactor, and so on. The main work of IAEA Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC) is introduced and recent concerns on radiation safety issues are discussed in this paper. A new comprehensive safety guide is being developed by RASSC to address the challenges in identification and management of existing exposure situations. Although the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has updated the internal dose coefficients for occupational exposure, RASSC will not revise relative safety standards in the near future and will continue to collect the experience feedback of member countries. With the application of new radiotherapy technologies, RASSC has also focused on radiation protection in radionuclide therapy and the secondary malignancies of radiotherapy survivors.

Key words: radiation safety standard committee, existing exposure, internal dose coefficient, medical exposure

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  • TL7