A radiation protection glossary for Radiation Protection Supervisors (RPS), Radiation Protection Advisers (RPA) and anyone else interesting in radiation safety terms and definitions. The glossary is a mixture of health physics , phrases related to radiation protection legislation, transport, practical safety, technical terms and similar.
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Published: Oct 12, 2018
The term 'credible' is used in a number of areas of Radiation Protection, including Risk Assessments, Safety Cases and Probabilistic Safety Assessments. Credible can be taken to mean an incident or accident which is thought to be Reasonably Foreseeable. Credible can be expressed numerically and this value will differ depending on the situation being assessed (but perhaps in the range of 10-5 to 10-6).
Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution