§ 18. Mr. Hunterasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to simplify the terms used to describe radiation doses in his Department's publications and circulars relating to civil defence matters; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThere are a number of internationally agreed units in which radiation quantities are expressed which have recently replaced units used in the past. Absorbed dose is now expressed in Grays which have replaced rads. Recent Home Office publications refer to the new system. Older publications will be amended in due course.
More generally I agree that there is a need to simplify information of this kind and I understand that the National Radiological Protection Board is looking at ways in which the presentation of information on radiation might be clarified.