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Radiation Safety Advice and Risk Evaluation
ARPANSA can be contacted directly for advice in these areas.
Environmental Radiation
- Level and impact of radionuclides in the Australian environment resulting from natural enhancement, releases from industrial sources, or a nuclear accident
- Radionuclide transport modelling and internal dosimetry for critical radionuclides found in the Australian environment
- Management and disposal of Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) waste from industries, including oil and gas extraction, and the mining and processing of phosphate ores, tin, tantalum and other non-ferrous ores, and coal; including dose and health-risk assessments.
- Dose and health-risk assessments in regard to the potential radiation exposure of nuclear veterans
- Health risk assessment and standards compliance for building materials used in Australia, such as granite bench-tops, phosphogypsum plaster-board, zircon glaze and ceramic or clay tiles.
- Management of radioactive waste and assessment and rehabilitation of sites that have been contaminated by radioactive materials
Medical Exposure
- Medical radiation doses and risk
- Medical and non-nedical X-ray equipment safety and efficacy.
- Measurements of the attenuation properties of shielding materials (eg lead loaded plastic and glass sheeting, protective aprons, gloves and lead glasses) to Australian Standards requirements.
- Dose evaluation/reconstructions and risk evaluation for patients undergoing diagnostic radiological examinations. Typical examples are for examinations performed on the pregnant patient and or where repeated or large dose procedures are being proposed, particularly on children.
- Limited Thermoluminescence Dosimeter service for use in investigations of medical doses.
- Advice on shielding and operator exposure.
- Monte Carlo calculations to evaluate X-ray propagation and doses relevant to diagnostic radiology. ( eg. Patient and operator doses, detector responses, shielding evaluations etc.)
- Miscellaneous x-ray inspections (eg bees in fern fronds, sexing of skinks, evaluation of integrity of bullet proof vests, Egyptian mummy radiography, detection of radio-opaque markers in surgical swabs, discrimination of illegally imported substances etc)
Radiopharmaceuticals
- Advice and scientific services are provided in relation to radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine. A Radiopharmaceutical Quality Assurance Test Program is conducted under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between ARPANSA and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). As part of this MOU radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine in Australia are tested for compliance with specifications.
Ultraviolet Radiation
- Artificial sources of UVR are commonplace and some may generate sufficient UVR emissions in the 200 to 400nm wavelength region to be a human health hazard. The UVR Section at ARPANSA can make traceable radiometric or spectral measurements of unknown sources and provide a hazard assessment of their UVR emissions.
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