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Collective dose

Term · Nuclear energy and radiation · MLC-T-NUC-000068

As defined in Title 10, Section 20.1003, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 20.1003), this is the sum of the individual doses received in a given period by a specified population from exposure to a specified source of radiation. For related information, see Doses in Our Daily Lives, Sources of Radiation, and Measuring Radiation.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-NUC-000068
FieldNuclear energy and radiation
ReferencesNRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "field": "Nuclear energy and radiation",
  "definition": "As defined in Title 10, Section 20.1003, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 20.1003), this is the sum of the individual doses received in a given period by a specified population from exposure to a specified source of radiation. For related information, see Doses in Our Daily Lives, Sources of Radiation, and Measuring Radiation.",
  "references": [
    "NRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/collective-dose/"
}

Record 68 of 555 in Nuclear energy and radiation terminology (MLC-0119). Request the full dataset.