Abstract
Further to its previous reports in 2000 and 2001, United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) has published the latest volumes of its report “UNSCEAR 2006 Report –EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATION—“ (Vol.1 and 2) . And moreover, the 2008 Report had been approved in 2007 and 2008 meetings and is expected to be published in the upcoming years. The UNSCEAR secretariat has now started to dissscuss the scientific subjects and the strategic plan of next following term (2008-2015).
On UNSCEAR 2007 meeting, almost 40 scientific programmes proposed by the various scientific groups in different countries, and we can probably say that some of these will become the Scientific Annexes of the future volume of the UNSCEAR report, were provided to the committee members. These proposed programmes were then examined by its scientific importance and societal need, and merged together. Finally, 12 candidates (e.g., uncertainties in radiation risk estimation, attributability of health effects due to radiation exposure, etc) were considered and will be subjected to the further discussion in the working group. The results will be further discussed at the forthcoming UNSCEAR meeting in 2009.
