Some fifty participants from Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), hospitals, customs and industry have attended a national training course on basic radiation protection and regulation of ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. This CD-ROM provides guidance on Occupational Radiation ...

Building regulations require wall and ceiling shielding to control radiation exposure in healthcare and diagnostic spaces.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiology fellows-in-training reported some radiation safety protocols are not fully enforced while pregnant.

Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...

Building truly radiation safe healthcare rooms means addressing real world exposure risks through thoughtful design and ...

UV radiation is invisible to the eye and it is non-ionizing form of radiation in the 100 nm to 400 nm wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. UV radiation is arbitrarily divided into UV-A ...

The Takata Corporation sold defective air bag inflators that resulted in the death of 16 people in the United States and a massive recall of cars. While it was rare for the air bags to fail, the ...

This policy establishes the duties and responsibilities for the Radiation Safety Program to ensure compliance with the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Public Acts of the State of ...

Prior approval from the UAB Radiation Safety Program is required for research that involves the introduction of radioactive materials or radioactive devices into humans. All requests must be submitted ...

For many years NRC (AEC)-licensed activities using by-product materials have been taking place at Michigan Technological University. Early in 1991, the University changed from an NRC broad scope ...