RADIATION PROTECTION AND SITING
Integral part of nuclear facility supervision as well as handling radioactive substances
Protecting people and the environment against the harmful effects of radiation requires the implementation of suitable and effective measures in construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of nuclear facilities and in the handling of radioactive substances. The associated measures affect equally the population as well as the staff at the nuclear facilities that emit radiation and the patients of nuclear medical applications.
TÜV NORD Nuclear offers comprehensive and independent support in the assessment and inspection of such measures. Its experience in a wide range of applications ensures optimum solutions to keep the radiation exposure of patients, personnel and the population as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA principle).
The TÜV NORD Nuclear range of radiation protection services comprises the following main topics:
- Workplace radiation protection
- Release as per § 29 StrlSchV
- Radiation protection instructions
- Radiation and activity monitoring
- Activity flow and radioecology
- Shielding design
- Transport and handling
- Environmental radioactivity
- Radiation protection measurements and nuclide analyses in the accredited TÜV NORD Nuclear laboratory
- Inspections of X-ray systems
- Inspections as per § 66 StrlSchV
- Radiation protection in nuclear medicine and radio-nuclide laboratories
The services provided in the area of radiation protection include the site assessment of nuclear facilities. Any nuclear facility requires licensing the prospective site before the construction, commissioning and operation activities may be initiated. This means that the assessment and licensing of a site is a prerequisite for the construction and ensuing stages.
TÜV NORD Nuclear has extensive experience in the field of site assessment for nuclear power plants, interim and final storage facilities etc. starting out from demographic data and extending to issues like e.g. seismic properties, hydrology, natural and man-made external impact, weather statistics etc. This applies equally to the initial characterisation of the site and to the continuous update of the update of the data base during the life cycle of the facility.
