In April 2002 an accident involving an industrial radiography source containing 197Ir occurred in cochabamba, Bolovia, some 400 km from the capital, La Paz. A faulty radiography source container had been sent back to the head quarters of the company concerned in La Paz together with other equipment as cargo on a passenger bus. This gave rise to a potential for serious exposure for the bus passe…
This book consist : Introduction; Protection of human health and the environment; Roles and responsibilities; General safety considerations; Safety features for the predisposal management of LILW; Record keeping and reporting; Safety assessment; and Quality assurance. (Jml)
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This book consist : Introduction; General approach to hazard assessment; Information and investigations necessary (Database); Hazard determination on the basis of extreme values; and Hazard determination for rare meteorological phenomena. (Jml)
A serious radiological accident occured in Samut Prakarn, Thailand, in late January and early February 2000 when a disused 60Co teletherapy head was partially dismantled, taken from an unsecured storage location and sold as scrap metal. Individuals who took the housing apart and later transported the device to a junkyard were exposed to radiation from the source. At the junkyard the device was …
On 24 July 1996 a serious accident occured at the Gilan combined cycle fossil fuel power plant in the Islamic Republic of Iran, when a worker who was moving thermal insulation materials around the plant noticed a shiny, pencil sized metal object lying in a trench and put it in his pocket. He was unaware that the metal object was an unshielded 185 GBq 192Ir source used for industrial radiography…
On 21 October 1994, three brothers entered the radioactive waste repository at Tammiku, Estonia, without authorization and removed a metal container enclosing a radiation source. This action initiated the sequence of events in a radiological accident. The accident resulted in the death of one person and injury to a number of others. The death was not originally attributed to radiation exposure…
This book consist : Introduction; Rationale for the categorisation of sources; Source attributes; Categories; and Control measures for sources in each category. (Jml)
This book consist : Chapter 1. Introduction; Chater 2. Framework; Chapter 3. Dosimetric quantities and units; Chapter 4. Dosimetry formalism; Chapter 5. Selection of instrumentation; Chapter 6. Establishment of a diagnostic SSDL calibration facility; Chapter 7. Code of practice for diagnostic calibrations at SSDLs; and Chapter 8. Code of practice for clinical measurements. (Jml)
This book consist : Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The status of nuclear power and special circumstances related to the financing of nuclear power products; Chapter 3. Costs and economic feasibility of nuclear power plants; Chapter 4. Conventional approaches for financing power generation projects in developing countries; Chapter 5. Experience gained and lessons learned; Chapter 6. Alterna…