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Radiation protection
Domain: Health and safety at work => Preventive measures => Radiations
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
The control of exposure to ionizing radiation by use of principles, standards, measurements, models, and such other means as restrictions on access to radiation areas or use of radioactive materials, restrictions on releases of radioactive effluents to the environment, and warning signs.
Definition source
US National Academy of Sciences (http://dels.nas.edu/potassium_iodide/glossary.html)
European legislation
Directives 96/29/Euratom, 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 92/3/Euratom
British legislation
The Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999
Variants
Radiological protection
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