Radiation protection of outside workers

摘要

In the beginning of the 1980ies, the problem of outside workers' radiation protection within the nuclear facilities was raised. Those workers received 80 % (and even more) of the collective dose from most nuclear facilities and most of the time higher individual doses than the workers of the nuclear operators. Outside workers' radiation protection issue was not explicitly taken into account into the 1980 Basic Safety Standards. Regarding that situation, the EC issued the Directive 90/641/Euratom in order to ensure that outside workers would benefit from the same level of protection as permanently employed workers, and which has led to an improvement of outside workers' radiation protection. The evolution of the context during the latest years - implementation of new Basic Safety Standards, enlargement of the EU as well as the increase of dismantling and waste handling activities -has lead the EC DGTREN to investigate the possibility to review and improve the Directive 90/641/Euratom.