The New York Times
WASHINGTON Federal agencies in charge of radiation protection are struggling to revise their standards to take into account the differences in susceptibility to radiation-induced cancer among men, women and children, and, according to a report released Wednesday, are lagging in that task.
The report, from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, said the rules were still too heavily based on Reference Man, a standard created by the International Commission on Radiological Protection in 1975 ... read more