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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  • 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 4 – Medical

    Published: Mar 15, 2019

      Tags:
    • RPS Training
    • Medical
    • Radiotherapy
    • Brachytherapy
    • PET
    • Nuclear Medicine

    We have many delegates from the medical sector who attend our RPS training courses. Our non-medical delegates are amazed by the extent of ionising radiation use in diagnostic imaging and treatment modalities. If you work in medicine and need RPS training, then how about considering our online RPS training course.

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  • RPA Life – Explaining a problem you don’t have

    Published: Feb 16, 2019

      Tags:
    • Radiation Protection Adviser
    • Risk
    • Health & Safety
    • LNT
    • Radiation risk
    • HASS
    • Ionising Radiation

    A radiation protection blog post from Mark Ramsay, Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) for Ionactive Consulting Limited. Explaining the problem you don't have to users of ionising radiation, thus allowing them to home in on more conventional areas of health and safety.

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  • RPS Training Courses (Who attends?) – Part 3 – Research & Development

    Published: Feb 13, 2019

      Tags:
    • R&D
    • RPS Training
    • Radiation safety in research
    • University radiation safety

    Who attends RPS Training Courses? An article exploring potential delegates who work in research and development. Are you looking for an RPS training course? If so, how about our online RPS training course.

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  • New Ionactive Website!

    Published: Feb 08, 2019

      Tags:
    • Ionactive
    • New Website
    • Radiation Protection Adviser
    • Radiation Supervisor Training

    Friday, 8th February 2019, the new Ionactive website goes live!

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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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Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

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