Musolino Stephen V, DeFranco Joseph, Schlueck Richard
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nonproliferation and National Security Department, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Health Phys. 2008 Feb;94(2):109-11. doi: 10.1097/01.HP.0000285801.87304.3f.
Traditionally, the concept of As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) has been applied to the workplace and to protect the public. The goals are to minimize small incremental exposures on a daily basis or per specific task, and on a yearly basis, thereby to keep the total annual dose equivalent as far below regulatory limits as practical. In an extreme emergency caused by radiological or nuclear terrorism, or a large scale radiological accident, it is proposed that the same principles can be applied to protect First Responders against potentially large exposures.
