ARPANSA - Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency

News and Media Releases

• ARPANSA Community Information Session on ANSTO licence applications

  ARPANSA has published the program for the community information session it is holding from 6-9pm on Thursday 16 May 2013 at the Engadine Community Centre on licence applications from ANSTO for an Interim Waste Store and a Nuclear Medicine Molybdenum-99 Facility.

• ARPANSA releases fact sheet on viewing solar eclipses

  ARPANSA has released a fact sheet providing information on some of the risks of viewing solar eclipses, including the use of ‘eclipse glasses’.

• ANSTO licence applications received

  ARPANSA has received licence applications from ANSTO to site and construct an Interim Waste Store, and a licence application to prepare a site for the proposed Nuclear Medicine Molybdenum-99 Facility. A public consultation period has now commenced.

current activities

• Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service

• The Australian National Dose Register (ANRDR) for Uranium Mining and Milling Workers

• National Diagnostic Reference Level Survey

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