Regulatory implementation of the occupational equivalent dose limit for the lens of the eye and underlying relevant efforts in Japan

Yokoyama, Sumi*; Hamada, Nobuyuki*; Tsujimura, Norio; Kunugita, Naoki*; Nishida, Kazutaka*; Ezaki, Iwao*; Kato, Masahiro*; Okubo, Hideki*

International Journal of Radiation Biology, 99(4), p.604 - 619, 2023/04

https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2022.2115160

In April 2011, the International Commission on Radiological Protection recommended reducing the occupational equivalent dose limit for the lens. Such a new occupational lens dose limit has thus far been implemented in many countries, and there are extensive discussions toward its regulatory implementation in other countries. In Japan, discussions in the Japan Health Physics Society (JHPS) began in April 2013 and in Radiation Council in July 2017, and the new occupational lens dose limit was implemented into regulation in April 2021. To share our experience, we have published a series of papers summarizing situations in Japan: the first paper based on information available by early 2017, and the second paper by early 2019. This paper (our third paper of this series) aims to review updated information available by mid-2022, such as regarding regulatory implementation of the new occupational lens dose limit, recent discussions by relevant ministries based on the opinion from the council, establishment process of safety and health management systems, the JHPS guidelines on lens dose monitoring and radiation safety, voluntary countermeasures of the licensees, development of lens dose calibration method, and recent studies on exposure of the lens in nuclear workers and biological effect on the lens.

Objectives and design of the JT-60 superconducting tokamak

Ishida, Shinichi; Abe, Katsunori*; Ando, Akira*; Cho, T.*; Fujii, Tsuneyuki; Fujita, Takaaki; Goto, Seiichi*; Hanada, Kazuaki*; Hatayama, Akiyoshi*; Hino, Tomoaki*; et al.

Nuclear Fusion, 43(7), p.606 - 613, 2003/07

https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/43/7/314

no abstracts in English

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Ezaki, Tetsuro*; Jinno, Kenji*; Mitani, Yasuhiro*; *; Uchida, Masahiro; Yoshino, Naoto

JNC TY8400 2001-005, 93 Pages, 2001/06

JNC-TY8400-2001-005.pdf:19.32MB

no abstracts in English

Prospect and attractiveness of fusion research and development toward an experimental reactor

Seki, Masahiro; ; Matsuda, Shinzaburo; *; *; *; Nishi, Masataka; *; Tokuda, Shinji; *; et al.

Denki Gakkai Gijutsu Hokoku, 0(613), 102 Pages, 1996/00

no abstracts in English

Integration study (V) for performance assessment system of geological disposal

Yanagisawa, Ichiro*; Fusaeda, Shigeki*; Uzawa, Masayuki*; Kasai, Masao*; Ishihara, Yoshinao*; Ikeda, Yasuhiro*; Ezaki, Masahiro*

PNC TJ1214 94-006, 542 Pages, 1994/03

PNC-TJ1214-94-006.pdf:12.82MB

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