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- PRESENTATION OF NON-MEDICAL ACTIVITIES USING IONISING RADIATION
- Sealed radioactive sources
- Industrial irradiation
- Non-destructive testing
- Verification of physical parameters
- Neutron activation
- Other common applications
- Unsealed radioactive sources
- Electrical devices emitting ionising radiation
- Industrial applications
- Veterinary radiodiagnostics
- Particle accelerators;
- Electrical devices emitting ionising radiation
- REGULATING NON-MEDICAL ACTIVITIES
- Licenses and notifications in the non-medical sector
- Authorities regulating sources of ionising radiation in France, and other applicable regulations
- Licensing frameworks for ionising radiation sources used for non-medical purposes
- Integration of the fundamental principles of radiation protection in the licensing procedures
- Statistics for 2010
- Revocation of unjustified or prohibited activities
- Determining the equipment inventory and ensuring compliance with the regulations
- Monitoring of radioactive source protection against malicious acts
- MONITORING NON-MEDICAL ACTIVITIES
- Checks conducted by ASN
- The main incidents in 2010
- Dosimetry in the non-medical sector
- ASSESSMENT OF RADIATION PROTECTION IN THE NON-MEDICAL SECTOR
- OUTLOOK
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In the field of regulating applications of ionising radiation in the non-medical sector, ASN works to ensure that the operators take full account of the risks involved in the use of ionising radiation. This problem is accentuated by the diversity and the number of the parties involved. Recent incidents in France and serious accidents abroad, for example in the field of gamma radiography, demonstrate once again the need for scrupulous implementation of the regulations and stringent operations. With this aim in view, as in 2010, ASN will continue the monitoring of radioactive source suppliers in 2011, for both the reviewing of license application files and the inspections performed in these entities. With regard to users, it will pay particular attention to on-site utilisation of ionising radiation sources and to seeking out entities that are not in conformity with the regulations.
ASN will also continue its work to implement equivalent regulations for the suppliers of electrical devices emitting ionising radiation.
Following the incidents related to gamma radiography sources, ASN initiated specific, targeted monitoring actions on high-level sources. It will continue these actions, placing emphasis on the security-related aspects, in anticipation of its new duties.
The 2010 initiative to publish the follow-up letters to the inspections ASN conducted in the non-medical sector will be continued in 2011.
ASN endeavours to constantly improve its knowledge of the players and organisations in the industry and in research, with the aim - among other things - of stepping up the verification of the justification for using radioactivity when reviewing license applications, and to encourage integration of the principle of optimisation from the equipment design stage. In the specific domain of gamma radiography, these objectives concern as much the gamma radiography contractors as the ordering companies, which are often directly involved in the choice of non-destructive testing techniques used on their site.
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