ICRP Main Commission Meeting

1962 August 21-23 Ottawa, Canada

The Commission discussed possible methods for maintaining communication between ICRU and ICRP. It was discussed that two secretaries could maintain communications between the two Commissions but no decision was reached on how to maintain links between the two organisations as a whole.

No decision was reached on changing the meaning of ‘R’ in ICRP to Radiation from Radiological.

A group was established to formulate a proposal regarding the question of whether or not rem should have an associated unit. This was to be done to the satisfaction of ICRP and ICRU.

The Commission agreed that close co-operation on the topics of radiation protection design reports and radiation protection dosimetry would be needed with ICRU.

The Commission received reports from Committees (C) 1-4 and made the following decisions:

C1 – The report provided to the Commission would be useful to have in the open literature.
C2 – The data on transuranic nuclides will be published in new report of the Commission.
C3 – An addendum has been prepared for publication in the Commission’s report.
C4 – This report was agreed to be published as soon as possible. Values of specific ionisation in the RBE Table will be deleted.
C5 – The Commission agreed that the report should be related more to handling and disposing of radioactive materials.

The Report of Committee on RBE was agreed to be revised and published as soon as possible. It would however, not be published in the ICRP recommendation series.

The Chairman of C3 E.E Smith was elected. Possible members of this Committee were contacted. It was agreed that this Committee would focus on medical practices

H.P Jammet was proposed and accepted as Chairman of C4. The scope of this Committee was established as dealing with practical applications of dosimetry and monitoring.

The Commission decided that proposals for Task Groups could come from Committees or the Commission itself.

The Commission elected Dr. L. Bugnard as Vice-Chairman of the Commission.

The definition of Dose Equivalent, as worded in ICRP/62/0-14, ICRU/62/0-6 was adopted by the Commission.