National Committee on Radiation

NCRP (1953). National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Maximum Permissible Amounts of Radioisotopes in the Human Body and Maximum Permissible Concentrations in Air and Water, NCRP Report No. 11, published as National Bureau of Standards Handbook No. 52, Superseded by NCRP Report No. 22 (National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Washington). 

The Council is the successor to the unincorporated association of scientists known as the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements and was formed to carry on the work begun by the Committee. 

Blood Counts, Statement of the National Committee on Radiation Protection, Radiology 63, 428 (1954)... 

HEW and the Federal Radiation Council have been assisted by the technical recommendations of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. The NCRP has been particularly involved in developing the concept and the values of the maximum permissible concentrations (MPC) of radionuclides in water, which values could be applied to foods (16). [The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements was created on July 14,1964, by Public Law 88-376. The council is the successor to the unincorporated association which was known as the National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements and which for 35 years served as the focal point for developing radiation protection philosophy and standards in the United States. The current address of the NCRP is 4201 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 402, Washington, D. C.]... 

Based in part on recommendations of National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurement. 1958. 

National Carbon Co., 166 National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurement, 430, 432 National Distillers Corp., 278 National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), 138, 421 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 31, 135, 326, 329, 330 National Industrial Conference Board, 269... 

U.S. National Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurements. 1960. Protection Against Radiation from Sealed Gamma Sources. National Bureau of Standards Handbook 73. Washington, D.C. 

The concentrations set by the National Committee on Radiation Protection (NCRP), which are the recommended maximum average concentrations of radionuclides to which an employee may be exposed, assuming that the employee works 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year. 

Eisenhower s announcement failed to quiet the debate over radiation problems because new recommendations of the National Committee on Radiation Protection soon produced another controversy. The issue stemmed from a decision of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, made public in early 1959, to advise a maximum permissible level for whole-population exposure firom internal emitters of one-hundredth of the occupational limit for gonad-seeking radioisotopes and one-thirtieth of the occupational limit for radioisotopes that do not affect the reproductive cells. Most internal emitters, including strontium 90, cause somatic rather than genetic damage. The action of the ICRP... 

Crossroads Marine Disposal Corporation, had discarded wastes in relatively shallow coastal waters near Boston under a permit granted in 1952, the AEC, in accordance with recommendations made by the National Committee on Radiation Protection in 1954, began to require that disposal take place at sites with a depth of at least a thousand fathoms (six thousand feet). The agency was satisfied that its sea-disposal procedures created no public-health hazards in either case. ... 

Advisory Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection—Established in 1929 by professional societies and X-ray equipment manufacturers in the United States to provide information and recommendations on radiation protection. It was renamed the National Committee on Radiation Protection in 1946. 

National Committee on Radiation Protection (NCRP)—American committee of scientific authorities that published recommendations on maximum permissible exposure to radiation. 

Stone, "Concept of Maximum Permissible Exposure," pp. 642-644 Schubert and Lapp, Radiation, chap. 9 Taylor, Radiation Protection Standards, pp. 22, 35 National Committee on Radiation Protection, Permissible Dose from External Sources of Ionizing Radiation, National Bureau of Standards, Handbook 59 (Washington, 1954), pp. 1-2, 17-19, 26-27. 

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