Radiation Protection Requirements for Source Exchange in Industrial Radiography

17 March, 2025

Source Exchange is undertaken to temporarily remove and return a Source Assembly from a Gamma Source Projector to allow examination, maintenance and test to be undertaken on the projector or to allow a redundant Source Assembly (spent) to be removed and replaced with a new Source Assembly. Ideally Source Exchange should be undertaken off-site in…

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The New IRR17 Consent Process

09 May, 2023
IRR17 Consent Training Course

The Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017 (IRR17) brought into effect a new Graded Approach for how regulators (HSE, ONR and HSENI, we focus on HSE in this article) would authorise work with ionising radiation – the higher the radiation protection risk, the greater the requirements. A three-tier system of regulatory control, Notification, Registration and Consent was…

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