Management and cleanup of legacy radium-contaminated sites in the United States
The hazards associated with radium-containing materials were largely unknown when they were first
introduced into household and other products over a century ago. Radium was also originally thought
to have beneficial health properties, leading to confusion amongst the public about the safety of
radium in household products and food items. When the adverse health effects associated with radium
were discovered and became well known, radium products became unpopular and were prohibited in some
countries. In the United States, after the hazards associated with radium became known, radium was
first regulated by individual...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 23, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: C Grossman, C Barr, D King, C McKenney, S Koenick and R Chang Source Type: research
Summary and analysis of Russian and international requirements for the safe management of very low
level radioactive waste and production waste containing very low active radionuclides
This article gives an overview of Russian legislation and international recommendations on the safe
management regulation of the accumulated very low level radioactive waste (RW), provides the
comparison of Russian and international criteria for RW attribution to this or that class and also
the existing radiation safety requirements. This article also deals with the difficulties in
management of production waste containing radionuclides. Criteria and standards were selected from
international (ICRP and IAEA publications) and Russian (Federal Law on Management of Radioactive
Waste, Government Decree on Radioactive Was...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 23, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: V N Klochkov, V G Barchukov, E V Klochkova, A A Maksimov and S V Berezin Source Type: research
Implementation of graded approach in ensuring safety in management of emergency and legacy
radioactive waste in Ukraine
Ukraine has accumulated large amounts of Chernobyl-origin emergency radioactive waste stored in the
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and beyond, as well as legacy radioactive waste in the Radon-type
facilities and military sites of the former Soviet Union. Management of such radioactive waste
requires the application of a graded approach, in particular, ranking of sites with such radioactive
waste by the degree of hazard. Based on the results of ranking, a decision is made on one of the
three options: urgent removal of radioactive waste from the site, delayed removal of radioactive
waste from the site, and absence of necessi...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 23, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Kateryna Fuzik, Sergii Kondratiev, Iryna Kutina, Ievgen Nikolaiev and Yevhen Veselov Source Type: research
Book Review: IAEA Safety Standard ‘Radiation protection and safety in medical uses of ionizing
radiation ’, SSG-46 (2018)
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Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 23, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Mishkat Ali Jafri Source Type: research
Development of operational intervention levels for events with release of radionuclides
An essential part of a protection strategy for radiological emergencies is the development of
national dose criteria and of operational intervention levels (OILs) to decide about protective
measures for all ten scenarios Germany is preparing. For the process of planning and implementing
such protection strategies as required by the German Radiation Protection Law the Federal Ministry
BMU has commissioned the German Radiation Protection Commission (SSK) to recommend dose criteria and
OILs for emergency response measures. OILs link a chosen dose criterion for a protective action with
a suitable measurement of the conta...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - August 22, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Florentin Lange, J ürgen Kopp, Joachim Breckow, Florian Gering, Christian Grimm, Jürgen Müller, Stephan Prüßmann, Wolfgang Raskob, Horst Schnadt and Wolfgang Weiss Source Type: research
Influence of the simultaneous calibration of multiple ring dosimeters on the individual absorbed
dose
Ring dosimeters for personal dosimetry are calibrated in accredited laboratories following ISO
4037-3 guidelines. The simultaneous irradiation of multiple dosimeters would save time, but has to
be carefully studied, since the scattering conditions could change and influence the absorbed dose
in nearby dosimeters. Monte Carlo simulations using PENELOPE-2014 were performed to explore the need
to increase the uncertainty of ##IMG##
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{{\text{0}}{\text{.07}}} \right)$} in the simultaneous irradiation of three and five DXT-RAD 707H-2
(T...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: J Calatayud-Jord án, C Candela-Juan, J D Palma, M C Pujades-Claumarchirant, Á Soriano, M Gracia-Ochoa, J Vilar-Palop and J Vijande Source Type: research
The 2019 –2023 Strategic Plan of the Spanish Society of Radiological Protection (SEPR)
The Spanish Society for Radiological Protection (SEPR) is a scientific and technical organization
that aims to bring together all radioprotection professionals from all the sectors of activity where
ionizing and non-ionizing radiation is produced. The development of the SEPR ’s Strategic Plan every
5 years is the cornerstone of all the different activities that the Society carries out. This
document establishes the SEPR goals and objectives for that period, as well as the activities
planned to achieve them. It is a living and open document that draws on past experiences while
looking to the future. The Strategic Pl...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: P ío Carmena, Mercè Ginjaume, Margarita Herranz, María Teresa Macías and Ricardo Torres Source Type: research
Development of skeletal systems for ICRP pediatric mesh-type reference computational phantoms
In 2016, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) launched Task Group 103 (TG
103) for the explicit purpose of developing a new generation of adult and pediatric reference
computational phantoms, named ‘mesh-type reference computational phantoms (MRCPs)’, that can
overcome the limitations of voxel-type reference computational phantoms (VRCPs) of ICRP Publications
110 and 143 due to their finite voxel resolutions and the nature of voxel geometry. After completing
the development of the adult MRCPs, TG 103 has started the development of pediatric MRCPs comprising
10 phantoms (male and female v...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Chansoo Choi, Bangho Shin, Yeon Soo Yeom, Haegin Han, Sangseok Ha, Sungho Moon, Gahee Son, Thang Tat Nguyen, Chan Hyeong Kim, Beom Sun Chung and Wesley E Bolch Source Type: research
Old enemy, new threat: you can ’t solve today’s problems with yesterday’s solution
The radiation protection principles of justification, optimization, and dose limitation as
enumerated by the International Commission on Radiological Protection have been guiding light for
the profession for over three decades. The dose limitation does not apply to medical exposure but
keeping patients ’ doses low is achieved through optimization, particularly by developing and using
diagnostic reference levels (DRLs). There are new findings that demonstrate that despite using the
best possible approaches to justification and optimization including as well use of DRLs, a very
large number of patients are receiving ...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Madan M Rehani Source Type: research
A liquid scintillation analysis method for low-level radioactive wastewater
There is currently general concern over low-level radioactive wastewater from the development of
nuclear industry. In this paper, a method based on an ultralow-level liquid scintillation
spectrometer for measuring uranium radioactivity in low-level radioactive wastewater is proposed.
This method can easily and quickly measure the radioactivity level of uranium in samples and can
even distinguish the main isotopes of uranium. The liquid scintillation method directly provides
results in units of radioactivity activity concentration, which are more convenient for comparison
with relevant national standards to determine ...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Xiaoyan Cao, Ning Lv, Jingxu Lv and Huiping Guo Source Type: research
The Fukushima nuclear accident —a decade on
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Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Richard Wakeford Source Type: research
Obituary David Cancio
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Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Personal dosimeter utilisation among South African interventionalists
Ionising radiation (IR) is increasingly being used in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and
offers increased benefits to patients but poses an increased occupational health risk to operators.
The consistent use and monitoring of radiation health care workers ’ dosimeters is an important part
of the process for ensuring adequate monitoring and control of IR in the workplace. There is however
often inconsistent dosimeter utilisation among these workers. The aim of this study was to report on
the dosimeter utilisation and dosimetry practices in South African interventionalists. We conducted
a survey and did in-dep...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Andr é Rose, Kerry Uebel and William Ian Duncombe Rae Source Type: research
Tritium in environmental objects in the area affected by FSUE Mayak Production Association in
2014 –15
Comparison of tritium volume activity (VA) rates in objects of environment in the Mayak Production
Association (Mayak PA) affected area in the period from 2014 to 2015 with tritium VA rates in the
same or similar objects of environment measured in the period from 2001 to 2013. Water samples from
environmental objects —precipitations, ponds, wells—were the material for this research. Tritium VA
in various environmental objects was measured using liquid scintillation method. The results were
processed using parametric and nonparametric methods of statistical analysis. In samples collected
in 2014 –15 from open re...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: V V Vostrotin, A Y Yanov and L V Finashov Source Type: research
System understanding as a scientific foundation in radioactive waste disposal, legacy site and
decommissioning programmes
Ongoing national programmes and International forums have in recent decades developed and enhanced
methods and strategies in how to address the characterisation of potentially suitable sites for
radioactive waste repositories. Siting processes, site selection and site investigation programmes
have been conducted for near surface and geological repositories and plans for construction are in
progress or have already been implemented. Lessons learned from these national and international
programmes are available and results are published. In this paper we synthesise the methods and our
lessons learned in how to plan, co...
Source: Journal of Radiological Protection - June 1, 2021 Category: Physics Authors: Tobias Lindborg, Ari T K Ikonen, Ulrik Kautsky and Graham Smith Source Type: research
