Selected Blog articles 2005-2018

Selected Blog articles from the old Ionactive website from 2005-2018. We will update this section and rotate articles on a regular basis.

  • Accident in industrial radiography - Ionactive Blog archive

    Published: Mar 16, 2019

      Tags:
    • Industrial Radiography
    • Accidents
    • radiation

    A radiographer was taking several radiographic shots on pipework at night - receives >50 Gy to the fingers and 7 Gy whole body dose. From the Ionactive blog archive.

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  • Overexposure of a worker (I-131) – Ionactive Blog archive

    Published: Mar 16, 2019

      Tags:
    • IAEA
    • I-131
    • Overexposure
    • Varskin 3

    A laboratory worker was contaminated with I-131 in a radiopharmaceutical company on February 28th, 2013. The worker was wearing two pairs of gloves and, when changing gloves, had noticed a break in the right inner glove, but not any obvious break in the outer latex glove. Later it would emerge that a significant overexposure had occurred. From the Ionactive blog archive.

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  • RPS Training Courses (Who attends?) – Part 1 – X-ray Security

    Published: Nov 13, 2018

      Tags:
    • RPS
    • Training
    • X-ray
    • Security
    • RPS training courses
    • Online RPS training
    • Cargo RPS courses
    • Freight RPS courses
    • Aviation RPS courses

    Who attends RPS Training Courses? An article exploring potential delegates who work with x-ray security equipment. Are you looking for an RPS training course? If so, start by considering our 24/7 on demand multimedia online RPS training course.

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  • RPS Training Courses (Who attends?) – Part 2 – Quality Assurance (QA)

    Published: Nov 13, 2018

      Tags:
    • radiation
    • Quality
    • measurement
    • detection
    • radiation quality assurance
    • Nuclear gauge
    • Thickness gauge
    • Density gauge

    Who attends RPS Training Courses? An article exploring potential delegates who work with sources of ionising radiation used in quality assurance (QA). Are you looking for an RPS training course? If so, how about following this link to our online RPS training course. Onsite training options are also available.

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  • RPS Training - Being animated!

    Published: Nov 13, 2018

      Tags:
    • RPS
    • Radiation safety
    • Training

    I have been going through some pictures from past RPS training courses.

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