Radiation protection services

The requirements and recommenations for radiation protection and radioactive waste management in a nuclear power plant are established in Refs [17,18]. The extent to which these services should be augmented from off-site resources should be considered. As a minimum, suitably qualified personnel should be made available to carry out an independent review of the activities of radiological services provided at the plant 

Appropriate specialist services should be provided to give advice and technical support on  

The operating organization, which is responsible for a nnmber of plants and which utilizes mobile teams of personnel for certain functions, should control individual 

If the central off-site workshop is used for maintenance of large components, the operating organization should ensure that the same quality assurance requirements are applied at snch a facility as at the nuclear power plants. Reactor components shipped to a central facility may need more stringent standards of decontamination and, when such components are dismantled, appropriate off-site radiological controls shonld be provided. 

The surveillance programme may require the provision of a service for calibrating instruments in accordance with the details given in Ref [12]. 

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Have available in advance Ihe telephor>e num< ber ol the health authorities and radiation protection service (and keep them up tO dataj. 

Rely on professional information Irom the national heahh aulhonty and radiation protection service and assist in the implementation of iheir recommendations. 

The radiation protection officer should be responsible for assessing the quality of radiation protection services. 

Operational Limits and Conditions for Research Reactors, No. 35-PI Safety Instrumentation for Research Reactors, No. 35-P2 Radiation Protection Service for Research Reactors, No. 35-P3 Maintenance and Periodic Testing for Research Reactors, No. 35-P4 Operating Procedures for Research Reactors, No. 35-P5... 

HS(G)63 Radiation protection offsite for emergency services m the event of a nuclear accident... 

Dose Effect Modifying Factors In Radiation Protection, Report of Subcommittee M-4 (Relative Biological Effectiveness) of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Report BNL 50073 (T-471) (1967) Brookhaven National Laboratory (National Tbchnical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia) X-Ray Protection Standards for Home Tblevision Receivers, Interim Statement of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (National Coxmcil on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Washington, 1968)... 

Facilities and services for radiation protection and safety must be well established at the national level. These include laboratories for personal dosimetry and environmental monitoring, and calibration and intercomparison of radiation measuring equipment they could also include central registries for radiation dose records and information on equipment reliability. 

The head of the Labor-Protection and Safety Service is the manager of the Radiation-Safety Service. The Radiation-Safety Service works according to the plan and measures for improving radiation safety at the plant. 

After three years preparation, the TV inspection of the primary circuits internals has been successfully issued in April 2001. The Novatome division of Framatome-ANP, completed the extensive non-destructive inspection program requested by the Phenix plant with an inspection of the primary circuit internals. Included in its service package were the setting up of the TV inspection — which required the partial draining of the primary-side sodium — the supervision of the supply of various materials needed to be developed and qualified, and the actual carrying out of die inspection. Justification studies for the inspection were carried out at the same time focusing on the thermalhydraulic, safety and radiation protection aspects affected by the lowering of the sodium level in the primary vessel. 

Kathren, RL., Radiation Protection, Medical Physics Handbook 16, Adam Hilger, International Publishers Services, Accord, MA, 1985. 

Siemens offers a comprehensive range of innovative services packages for all maintenance activities, including component service for example for valves, pumps and piping, as well peripheral activities such as e.g. radiology and radiation protection. 

Specialized training and radiation protection for those who will provide emergency services (e g., fire and police protection)... 

This subpart established the QA requirements for contractors conducting activities, including providing items or services that affect, or may affect, nuclear safety of DOE nuclear facilities (10 CFR 830.120). This subpart became effective January 10,2001. Subpart A was used for most of the PAAA fines (except for 10 CFR 835—Radiation Protection (25)) that have been levied to date. Almost any serious event or noncompliance can be linked to a... 

Another view on the question whether to reprocess spent fuel and the scope of the radioactive waste convention was also expressed. On the former, it was noted that the UK for example went through a major exercise some two years ago in connection with the Sellafield reprocessing plant. It showed that the decision to reprocess is not radiation protection, or economics, or sustainability, or safeguards, or transport, or employment, it is all of these items and the decision makers have to be able to weigh all of them in a proper balance. And of course the UK government policy is that it is for the owners of the spent fuel to decide whether to have their fuel reprocessed or not. Clearly, there is no option, if there are no suppliers of reprocessing services and those are pretty few in the world. 

No person may dispose of or accumulate radioactive waste xmless he is authorised by the appropriate Agency or Service or is exempt. Whenever possible local disposal of radioactive waste should be used but with many industrial sources, such as those used in gauges and radiography, disposal should be made through a person authorised to do so and advice should be sought from the source supplier, a Radiation Protection Adviser or the appropriate regional Environment Agency or Service. 

In order to optimize the radiation protection of workers for all work in radiation areas, including maintenance, repairs, refuelling, plant modifications and in-service inspection, the RPP should include actions to eliminate unnecessary radioactive materials from the site. 

Radiation Protection Other Services (administrative) As needed As needed No local staff needed if on-call surveillance is available... 

McCone s and Eisenhower s attempts to repair the sullied reputation of the AEC were quickly undercut by a new report, coming from within the administration, that questioned the agenqr s role in protecting public health. On 26 March 1959, the day after the president s statement, the surgeon general of the United States, Dr. LeRoy E. Burney, issued the results of a review of radiation problems conducted by his agency, the U.S. Public Health Service, a division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The report, submitted by the National Advisory Committee on Radiation, which Burney had established a year earlier, urged that "ultimate authority" for radiation protection be vested in the Public Health Service. Burney had formed file advisory committee to... 

In the midst of the growing debate over radioactivity in milk, the Public Health Service s National Advisory Committee on Radiation issued an analysis of the question that, like its 1959 report on radiation protection, attracted widespread interest. The Service had requested the advisory committee to examine the problems of fallout contamination after the Soviet resumption of atmospheric testing in September 1961. It was particularly concerned with the advantages and disadvantages of taking countermeasures to reduce public exposure to fallout if readings reached a disturbing level. The advisory committee studied the issue for... 

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