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)
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…
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Proceedings contains material Safety management; Occupational radiation protection: Trends and developments; Backfitting, upgrading and modernization of nuclear power plants; Radiological protection principles for situations of chronic exposure to residual radioactive materials: decommissioning and rehabilitation and reclamation of land; Radiation safety in the distant future: the issue of the …
Proceedings contains material Executive summary; Opening session; Background session; Explanatory topical session liability; Communication with the public and between governments; Effectiveness of radiation protection in transport (Technical session 1); Compliance and quality assurance (Technical session 2); Packaging and transport of radioactive material (fuel cycle and non-fuel cycle) (Techni…