Organizers of the 11th IRPA International Congress have wished to take advantage of this occasion to launch a new series of books dedicaded to review the current important problems of concern in radioprotection assembling within this book contributions from the worldwide and most famous specialists in their respective fields. All aspects of radioprotection are treated, throught synthetic articles accessible to all.

Contributor: Henri Métivier

Henri Métivier, docteur ès Sciences, est Professeur émérite en Radioprotection à l'Institut national des sciences et techniques nucléaires. Ancien membre de la Commission internationale de protection radiologique et professeur à l'INSTN. (au moment de la parution de l'ouvrage)

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Henri Métivier, Director of Research, member of the International Committee for Radiological Protection, has long experience of Human contamination by radionuclides.