CHANGES IN APPROACHES TO ENSURING RADIATION SAFETY ACCORDING TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIATION PROTECTION

Problem statement. Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiation Protection are scientifically based studies of an independent, international, non-governmental organization of scientists, which provides recommendations on radiation protection in various spheres of human life and activity when interacting with the environment, with flora, fauna and man. The ICRC develops principles and approaches to radiation protection that are used by governments and non-governmental organizations around the world to establish legislative norms, standards and safety procedures. The purpose of the article is to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the publications of the International Commission on Radiation Protection from the beginning of its first reports to the release of the latest reports in the period 2020−2024, to determine which of these recommendations and established regulations were applied in the national normative legal documents of Ukraine and to investigate their impact on certain spheres of activity in the system “Man − environment − sources of ionizing radiation”. Tasks of the article. Carry out a step-by-step analysis of the issued ICRP Recommendations by year; to build block diagrams of radiation protection approaches in various fields such as medicine, radioactive waste, territory monitoring, etc.; to determine the impact of the issued recommendations on the formation, editing and sustainable development of national regulatory and legal documents of Ukraine. Conclusions. The block diagrams developed in the article clearly show how the ICRC publications changed and what further research was encouraged. Based on new researches that have come out in the last 10−15 years, there was a vital and professional need to develop new Radiation Safety Norms, Basic Sanitary Rules and State Building Regulations on radiation safety in construction, with the introduction of such terms as: administrative and object dose levels, model of external and internal exposure of personnel, protocol of action, standard person, reference age, individual object risks, human phantom and introduce other terms and definitions into regulatory documents of Ukraine.