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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1990
RPAG SUBMITS RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVT
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(RPAG), AN EXPERT THE RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION ADVISORY GROUP
THE GOVERNMENT ON HEALTH GROUP FORMED IN JUNE LAST YEAR TO ADVISE MATTERS IN THE EVENT OF ACCIDENTAL RELEASES OF RADIATION FROM FACILITIES, HAS SUBMITTED TWO REPORTS TO THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH.
NUCLEAR
HONG KONG AUTHORITY.
GOVERNMENT
BY THE
CHAIRED BY PROFESSOR POON CHUNG-KWONG, THE GROUP WAS SET UP
REPORT PLANNING THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONTINGENCY
KINGDOM THE
UNITED
ON SUBMITTED TO ATOMIC ENERGY
THE TWO REPORTS
ARE ENTITLED "DERIVED
INTERVENTION
LEVELS"
THE FIRST REPORT
CONTAINS
INTERVENTION
AND "RESOURCES REQUIREMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES".
RADIONUCLIDES
OR
ON RECOMMENDATIONS AND DERIVED INTERVENTION LEVELS LEVELS (IL'S) OF RADIATION DOSES
PRESENT IN (DIL'S) OF
RADIATION
WILL COUNTERMEASURES MATERIALS ABOVE WHICH APPROPRIATE CONSIDERED IN HONG KONG IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF AN GUANGDONG NUCLEAR POWER STATION AT DAYA BAY LEADING TO RADIONUCLIDES.
ENVIRONMENTAL NEED ΤΟ BE ACCIDENT AT THE A RELEASE OF
NUMBER OF SCIENTIFIC STUDIES THE SECOND REPORT IDENTIFIES A
REFINE ITS PRESENT ESTIMATION ON WHICH NEED TO BE CARRIED OUT TO DIL'S BY TAKING LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS INTO ACCOUNT.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS ON IL'S AND PROF POON POINTED OUT THAT
ACCEPTED INTERVENTION LEVELS DIL'S ARE IN LINE WITH INTERNATIONALLY
OF EXPERIENCE OF DOSE, WHICH MAY BE SUBJECT TO REVISION IN THE LIGHT AND RESEARCH.
"THE
IL'S RECOMMENDED
ARE
ESSENTIALLY
THE SAME (IAEA), PROPOSED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
AND THOSE PROPOSED AN UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION (ICRP),
AUTHORITY
THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION, HE ADDED.
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ON MATTERS
RELATING TO
AS THOSE WHICH IS
BY THE WHICH IS RADIOLOGICAL
OF RANGE FOR A FULL DIL'S IL'S AND
THE REPORT FOR COMPLETENESS AND IN
PROF POON SAID COUNTERMEASURES ARE LISTED IN KEEPING WITH INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES.
EVACUATION FOOD SUPPLIES
THEY COMPRISE SHELTERING INDOOR, THE AFFECTED POPULATION, CONTROL OF STABLE IODINE FOR SELECTED GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS.
BE
OR RELOCATION AND THE USE
OF
OF
ANY WAY SUGGEST OF ACCIDENTAL
HOWEVER, HE EMPHASISED THAT RPAG DOES NOT IN
LEVELS WOULD
REACHED THAT THESE
IN THE EVENT RADIOLOICAL RELEASE AT DAYA BAY, OR THAT PLANS SHOULD FORMULATED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL THESE COUNTERMEASURES.
NECESSARILY BE
/"IN PARTICULAR