RADIATION PROTECTION AND ENVIRONMENT
The journal titled Radiation Protection and Environment is being published quarterly by the Indian Association for Radiation Protection (IARP) since January 1997 (Vol. No. 20 onwards, current Vol. No. being 22). Earlier, the journal was published under the title Bulletin of Radiation Protection (vol. Nos. I to 19). The journal is indexed in INIS ATOM INDEX.
An International Advisory Council with eminent scientists as Members has been set up to provide guidance for the journal publication. All original contributed articles/papers by the scientists from India and abroad are pre reviewed and published only after due dialogue/revision, if necessary.
The journal covers all the scientific disciplines related to various aspects of radiation protection, occupational safety and environmental quality in workplace and in public domain. The contents include research papers, review articles, technical reports and information on new products/techniques/methods, new experts of general interest in the field. Conference proceedings/Special issues on topics of interest such as TL Dosimetry, Internal Dosimetry, Ubiquitous Radon, the Chernobyl Accident Ten Tears After, and ICRP Recommendations have been published from time to time.
The circulation list of the Journal includes scientists from various units of DAE, national research laboratories and universities, technologists working in industrial, agricultural and other applications of radiations, medical physicists-cum-radiological safety officers (RSOs). The journal reaches all parts of the country and also to about a hundred subscribers/members abroad. Thus the journal fulfills the needs of the authors and readers in the above areas at the national levels and slowly getting established at the international level.
It is IARP's resolve to strengthen the journal as much as possible and meet publication schedule and provide up-to-date information to ever increasing number of members of IARP family and others.
The Proceedings of the 24th Annual IARP Conference held at Kakrapar, in January 1999, on Nuclear Fuel Cycle in India can be considered as almost complete compilation of the safety related data and status update for all the facilities operating under the nuclear fuel cycle in the country.