ICRP Publication 114: Environmental Protection: Transfer Parameters for Reference Animals and Plants

In Publication 103, the Commission included a section on the protection of the environment, and indicated that it would be further developing its approach to this difficult subject by way of a set of Reference Animals and Plants (RAPs) as the basis for relating exposure to dose, and dose to radiation effects, for different types of animals and plants.

Subsequently, a set of 12 RAPs has been described in some detail, particularly with regard to estimation of the doses received by them, at ...