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IAEAInternational Atomic Energy Agency
Industrial Radiography
Basic Safety Requirements
Day 5 – Lecture 6
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Contents
• Compound Radiography
- Design of enclosure
- Effective engineering controls
• Equipment Maintenance
• Site Radiography Procedures
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ALARA
• Radiation exposures to be kept
As Low As Reasonably Achievable.
• Where practicable, to be achieved by
means of engineered controls
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Compounds (fixed facilities)
• Enclosure design• Control of exposure
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Typical design
warning lights
emergency cut-out
control panel
maze
entrance
door
goods access door
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Control of exposure
Safety systems to prevent access
during exposure :
• door interlocks• fixed radiation monitors (gamma
work)• emergency stops
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Door Interlocks
Door interlock
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Door Interlocks
• Fail to safety• Not easily defeated• Easy to operate if frequent
access required• Guarded interlocks to prevent
tampering
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Emergency stop
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Emergency stops
• button/wire• located so it can be reached
without passing primary beam• adequately labelled
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Warning notice
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Warning devices
• Pre-exposure signal (whistle, klaxon)
• Source exposure warning light (flashing)
• Notices explaining the meaning of the signals and actions to be taken
- local language
- inside and outside the compound
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Warning lights
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Worker protection
Trapped persons should be able to :
• leave enclosure, or• take refuge in shielded area, or• communicate with people outside
(alarm)
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Site Radiography
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Site Radiography
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Site Radiography Procedures
1. Prior to work• Prepare the area, consider :
- beam collimation/beam direction
- local shielding/ beam stop
- Calculate distance of barrier• Advise site management
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Site Radiography Procedures
2. During work• Designated controlled area
- demarcated boundary
- warning notices
- boundary patrolled and monitored
Effective communication between
radiographers in a crew is essential
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SAFE WORK PRACTICES
The three simple rules to minimize personal radiation doses are:
Time: optimize number of exposures and the exposure time
Distance: keep as far away as practicable from the radiation sources during an exposure (ensuring adequate access control)
Shielding: use collimators or lead sheets (if provided)
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General safe work practices
• Radiation monitoring of the gamma radiography source container - to ensure that the radiation source is in its fully shielded position
• Check that delivery tubes, extension tubes and all fittings are in good condition and are not kinked, cracked or broken.
• All maintenance work on the equipment, that is not intended by the manufacturer to be undertaken by the user.
• Personal alarm dosemeter & personal monitoring device are used at all times during industrial radiography operations
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Safe work practices
• The radioactive substance must be immediately returned to its fully shielded position on the completion of the exposure.
• Prior to using the equipment, operators must ensure that:• all interlocks, shielding, collimators, signs, barriers
and other safety devices are properly positioned; • all persons not involved in the operation are at safe
locations; • suitable radiation monitoring equipment (ie a radiation
survey meter) is available and in use.
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Safe work practices
• Equipment which is known to be or suspected of malfunctioning, or is damaged, must not be used.
• Industrial radiography must be ceased by returning the radioactive source to its fully shielded position or by de-energising the X-ray tube, as applicable: if a malfunction or suspected malfunction of the equipment
occurs during operation; if any person other than the industrial radiographer or assistant
industrial radiographer enters a controlled area (where the dose rate exceeds or might exceeds a predetermined dose e.g. 25Sv/h); or
if a radiation survey meter or a personal alarm dosimeter fails to function
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Safe work practices
Enclosed sites/ partially enclosed site
• Before commencing an exposure, the industrial radiographer must visually inspect the site to ensure that it is unoccupied.
• All entrances to the fully enclosed site must be locked, or interlocked to an audible and visible alarm, during radiographic exposure.
• The radiation dose rate must be periodically measured by the industrial radiographer to ensure that it does not exceed the predetermined dose rates in any accessible area outside the partially enclosed or fully enclosed site.
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Safe work practices
Open sites
• Erect a well defined and clearly visible boundary (using, for example flagged rope) around the site, including above and below the site as necessary.
• The boundary must be located such that the maximum dose rate at the boundary is not exceeded. The boundary must be marked with radiation warning signs.
• Radiography equipment and the item to be radiographed must be set up so that each of the components, particularly the X-ray tube or the radioactive substance holder (eg. collimator), are immobilized and therefore will not move during exposure.
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Safe work practices
Prior to using the equipment, industrial radiographers must ensure that:
(i) all interlocks, shielding, collimators, signs, barriers and other safety devices are properly positioned;
(ii) all persons not involved in the operation are at safe locations; and
(iii) suitable radiation monitoring equipment (i.e. a radiation survey meter) is available and in use.
(iv) Just prior to commencing an exposure, a warning signal must be given to warn persons within a reasonable distance that an exposure is about to take place.
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Safe work practices
During exposures
• The area within the boundary must be kept under surveillance at all times during exposure to ensure that no person enters it or remains within it.
After exposure
• Before a site is vacated, the industrial radiographer must ensure, by
monitoring, that all radiation sources are locked in the fully shielded condition or switched off, as appropriate, and returned to the store or to the transport vehicle and that all boundary-defining equipment has been removed.
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Equipment Maintenance
Condition of containers :
• clean (no grit/moisture)• shielding intact• warning notices/source
details
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Equipment Maintenance
Condition/operation of wind-out gear:• cable crank• locking key/mechanism• guide tube• connectors
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Equipment Maintenance
Sources to be leak tested :• indirect wipe of surfaces (guide tube) • direct wipe of source (using specialised
equipment)
Carried out at intervals :• required by regulatory body, or• recommended by source manufacturer,
or• following an incident
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Transport of Gamma Radiography Equipment
• The source control or shutter mechanism of the source container must be locked in the fully shielded position, and all port plugs must be securely fitted prior to transport.
• Before and after transport, radiation monitoring must be carried out to demonstrate that: the useful beam is properly attenuated with the shutter or source
control mechanism in the fully shielded position; the attenuated radiation exposure pattern is as expected (compare with
the measurement in the radiation source movement record book); and radiation dose rates do not exceed 2000Sv/h at 5cm from the external
surface, or 100Sv/h at 1m from its surface.
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Transport Of Gamma Radiography Equipment
• If the gamma-radiography source container is packed in an outer shipping container, the source container must be firmly secured within the outer container.
• The gamma-radiography source container is to be located in the vehicle so that the radiation dose received by any person traveling in the vehicle is as low as practicable. The maximum dose rate at the position of any person in the vehicle must not exceed 5Sv/h.
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Summary
• Compound Radiography
- Design of enclosure
- Effective engineering controls
• Site Radiography Procedures• Equipment Maintenance