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A front cover of ARPANSA's annual report 2025 - 26

ARPANSA's 2025-26 annual report tabled in Parliament

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency has tabled its latest annual report in Parliament, informing the Australian Government and the public about its achievements, performance and financial position at the end of the 2025-26 reporting year. 

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Melbourne hosting eminent environmental radiation conference in the new year

Melbourne will host the 7th International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity (ICRER), which will bring together the radioecology and environmental radioactivity field from 21–26 February 2027.

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Key progress on water calorimeter replacement for Primary Standard

Radiotherapy treatments in Australia, New Zealand and several Southeast Asian countries are set to receive even greater assurance as a water calorimeter primary standard will soon replace the existing graphite measurement device. 

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Ultraviolet radiation index
Use this chart to see how the UV index varies throughout the day at our monitoring sites.
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Personal Radiation Monitoring Service
The Personal Radiation Monitoring Service monitors the exposures of workers in the medical, dental, chiropractic, industrial and mining fields to ionising radiation.
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Radiation sources
We publish a comprehensive range of fact sheets on issues relating to radiation and health.
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Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service
A national independent dosimetry auditing program, the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service provides quality assurance for radiation oncology facilities and patients.
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Regulatory publications
We produce a range of publications to promote practices which protect human health and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation.
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Hire of radiation meters
We offer four types of meters you can hire to measure radiation in and around your home.

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