Ionactive Radiation Protection Blog
Our radiation protection blog is predominately written by Mark Ramsay, Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) for Ionactive Consulting. It contains a mixture of content including day to day descriptions of RPA work, advice and comment on current radiation protection issues, comment on regulator (HSE etc) inspections (suitably sanitised), historic content (i.e. the Co-60 drop and run story, Alexander Litvinenko Po-210, Fukushima nuclear accident, industrial radiography accidents), radiation safety legislation updates and practical radiation protection in the workplace.
For formal radiation safety advice. please see our Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) service pages.
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Contamination monitor window protection grilles
Published: Apr 30, 2020
Read moreIonactive is pleased to offer this guest blog article from our good friend and colleague Mark Keeping, MSRP. In this article Mark, an experienced radiation protection professional, discuses a particular physical weakness in radiation detectors - the detection window. Among many things Mark examines how an efficient monitoring grille requires the openings to 'tessellate'.
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Analogue vs Digital Scaled Radiation Monitors
Published: Apr 12, 2020
Read more“A positive measurement, which for all intents and purposes, is zero or simply negligible in many cases". A blog article by Mark Ramsay, Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) at Ionactive, looking at analogue and digital scaled radiation monitors.
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Ionactive - 1Q, 2020
Published: Apr 01, 2020
Read moreSome thoughts from Ionactive on the first 3 months of 2020 and dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ionactive 2019
Published: Dec 31, 2019
Read moreHappy New Year from Ionactive, and all the best to clients and friends for 2020! Here is a little look back over the last 12 months, quite a year.
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Margaret J Minski – my boss, my colleague and family friend (1937-2019)
Published: Sep 08, 2019
Read moreOn the 27th August I was driving to Manchester when I received news that Margaret J Minski had sadly passed away. Margaret is why I do what I do today – a Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) for Ionactive Consulting. This article is a personal tribute to Margaret, a wonderful person who will be missed by many.
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Overexposure to Radiographer (April 2019)
Published: May 06, 2019
Read moreA radiographer working in the permanent shooting room at one of the licensee’s facilities received 82mSv whole body dose due to the radioactive source still being exposed during setting up the next shot.
The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?