The purpose of this Safety Guide is to provide international guidance, coherent with contemporary radiation protection principles and IAEA safety requirements, on the strategy of monitoring in relation to: (a) control of radionuclide discharges under practice conditions, and (b) intervention, such as in cases of nuclear or radiological emergencies or past contamination of areas with long lived …
Exposure to ionozing radiation in known to have negative impacts on humans due to its ability to ionize any material, including human cells.
There are several hundred thousand nuclear gauges incorporating a radioactive source or a radiation generator in use all over the world. They have been used in a wide range of industries to improve the quality of products, optimize processes, and save energy and materials. The economic benefits have been amply demonstrated, and there is clear evidence that nuclear gauge technology can be used s…
This Safety Guide, co-sponsored by the ILO, PAHO and WHO, makes recommendations concerning the building of competence in protection and safety within a national radiation protection infrastructure, and provides guidance for setting up the structure for a national strategy. It relates to the training and assessment of qualification of new personnel and the retraining of existing personnel in ord…
This Safety Guide provides recommendations on how to meet the requirements related to safety assessment in the Safety Requirements publication, Safety Standards Series No. WS-R-1, Near Surface Disposal of Radioactive Waste. It addresses the subject of safety assessment for near surface disposal of radioactive waste and provides guidance on approaches to performing safety assessments in the cont…
This Safety Guide provides recommendations and guidance on the safe management of radioactive waste resulting from the mining and milling of ores, with the purpose of protecting workers, the public and the environment from the consequences of these activities. It supplements Safety Standards Series No. WS-R-1, Near Surface Disposal of Radioactive Waste.
The objective of this Safety Guide is to assist Member States in implementing regulatory requirements for radiation sources that will ensure their safety. To that end, this publication provides guidance on infrastructure responsibilities for safety, on methodologies for performing safety assessments and on specific design and operational measures that should be taken to ensure safety throughout…
This publication states the fundamental safety objective and ten associated safety principles, and briefly describes their intent and purpose. The fundamental safety objective — to protect people and the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation — applies to all circumstances that give rise to radiation risks. The safety principles are applicable, as relevant, throughout the en…
At its meeting in May 1978, Committee 4 on the application of the Commission’s Recommendations decided to revise ICRP Publication I?: “General Principles of Monitoring for Radiation Protection of Workers”, adopted in May 1968, in order to achieve coherence with the Commission’s Recommendations published in ICRP Publicatiorl26: “Recommendations of the International Commission on Ra…
The International Basic Safety Standards for Protection against Ionizing Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources (the ‘Standards’ or ‘BSS’) were published as IAEA Safety Series No. 115 in 1996 [1]. This publication was the culmination of efforts over past decades towards harmonization of radiation protection and safety standards internationally, and was jointly sponsored by th…