NDTnet 1998 Aug, Vol.3 No.8

Abstract

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) in 1990 revised its standing recommendations on radiation safety based on the vast amount of new information on biological effects of radiation collected in the 1980s. As a result of this, in 1991 within the framework of the Interagency Committee on Radiation Safety, six organizations under the co-ordination of the IAEA began work for the international harmonization of radiation safety. The end product is the IAEA publication. "The BSS" Exposures to ionizing radiation from practices and interventions need to be subject to certain standards of radiation safety to protect those persons adventitiously exposed. The BSS are intended to harmonize internationally the basic requirements for protecting people against undue radiation exposure in practices and interventions.

The declared aim of the BSS is to prevent the occurrence of deterministic effects of radiation and to restrict the likelihood of occurrence of stochastic effects for any justified practice or interventions. Any radiation exposure essentially unamenable able to control through the BSS requirements is excluded from the BSS scope. Also the BSS only apply to human beings and ionizing radiation. It does not apply to non-ionizing radiation nor to the control of other non-radiological aspects of health and safety.

The BSS establish general obligations in relation to both practices and interventions. It also establishes that any source containing radioactive substances shall be transported in accordance with the provisions of the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (ST-1 IAEA 1996). In order to ftilfill these obligations, the BSS establish the basic requirements for protection and safety. Requirement for practices are Administration, Radiation Protection Management, Technological Aspects and Verification. While requirement for intervention are grouped as Administrative and Radiation Protection. The BSS are appended with detailed requirements for all types of exposure classified as occupational exposure, medical exposure, public exposure, potential exposure, safety of sources, emergency exposure situations and chronic exposure situations. The paper presents an overview of the basic safety requirements for the different categories.

Abstract Source:
Book of Abstracts, 7th European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, 26-29 May 1998, ISBN: 87-986898-0-00

Full-Text Source:
Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, 26-29 May 1998, ISBN:

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