Planned revision of ICRP Publication 38

Eckerman, K. F.*; Endo, Akira   

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has issued its 2007 recommendations which will be followed by the issuance of new dose coefficients for occupational intakes of radionuclides. Committee 2 has had underway several tasks in preparation for the calculations including the revision of its Publication 38 on the energies and intensities of emitted radiations. Publication 38, issued in 1983, provided nuclear decay data for 820 radionuclides. All dose coefficients for the intake of radionuclides published by ICRP in the past 30 years have been based on these data. Because of the special nature of these data, ICRP has not planned to make available the future publication for public comment. This presentation highlights the technical details underlying the analysis of the nuclear structure data and the nature of the planned publication.