Generic Intervention Levels

`Generic Intervention Levels in Emergency Response Situations`

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	Urgent protective actions

Action	Avertable dose(Generic intervention level)

Sheltering	10 mSv for a period of no more than 2 days
Iodine prophylaxis	100 mGy (committed absorbed dose to the thyroid)
Evacuation	50 mSv for a period of no more than 1 week

Generic action levels for foodstuffs
(From the CODEX Alimentarius Commission guideline levels for radionuclides in food moving in international trade following accidental contamination)

Radionuclides Foods destined for general consumption (kBq/kg) Milk infant foods and drinking water (kBq/kg)

Caesium-134 Caesium-137 Ruthenium-103 Ruthenium-106 Strontium-89 1 1

Iodine-131 0.1

Strontium-90 0.1

Americium-241 Plutonium-238 Plutonium-239 0.01 0.001

Long-term actions

Action Avertable dose (generic intervention level)

Initiating temporary relocation 30 mSv in a month

Terminating temporary relocation 10 mSv in a month

Considering permanent resettlement 1 Sv in a lifetime

Source: International Atomic Energy Agency, 2 Jul 1996 in Bulletin

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Last Update: 29 Oct 1996.

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Radionuclides	Foods destined for general consumption (kBq/kg)	Milk infant foods and drinking water (kBq/kg)
Caesium-134 Caesium-137 Ruthenium-103 Ruthenium-106 Strontium-89	1	1
Iodine-131	1	0.1
Strontium-90	0.1	0.1
Americium-241 Plutonium-238 Plutonium-239	0.01	0.001


Action	Avertable dose (generic intervention level)

Initiating temporary relocation	30 mSv in a month
Terminating temporary relocation	10 mSv in a month
Considering permanent resettlement	1 Sv in a lifetime