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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Radiation Protection Adviser: Back on the road!
Published: May 29, 2020
Read moreAfter many weeks working at home - the Ionactive Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) Mark Ramsay is back on the road. First impressions!
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The future of Radiation Protection Training (face-2-face vs online training)
Published: May 26, 2020
Read moreAs Covid-19 requires a rethink on how you deliver radiation safety training (or other training), we look at the trainer and delegate experience by comparing face-2-face training and online training delivery. Can you deliver face-2-face training successfully using conferencing software? Should online training mimic what is delivered in the training room, or should it be completely reworked to maximize the advantages of online courses, whilst minimising the disadvantages of a distributed group of delegates.
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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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