This publication sets out guidance on the development and use of competency assessments to evaluate the knowledge, skills and attitudes of personnel in the nuclear industry, including nuclear power plants, research reactors, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, regulatory bodies and waste management facilities. The chapters cover: the purposes of testing including employment selection and job placement, qualifications, promotion and motivation; basis ...

This resources manual provides comprehensive guidance at an international level in many aspects of nuclear medicine practice, including education, training, facilities and equipment, quality systems, and radiopharmacy and clinical practice. The manual has been written with routine clinical practice in mind and therefore provides advice on many practical points that should help both new and also more developed nuclear medicine centres. The new ...

This is the twenty-second edition of Reference Data Series No. 2, which presents the most recent reactor data available to the Agency. It contains summarized information as of 1st January 2002 on: (1) power reactors operating or under construction, and shut down; and (2) performance data on reactors operating in the Agency's Member States, as reported to the Agency. The information is collected by the Agency through designated national ...

Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing areas in science and engineering, for synthesis of nanoparticles and nanocomposites with improved characteristics. Radiation-based technology using X-rays, e-beams and ion beams is the key to a variety of different approaches to micropatterning. Radiation processed nanomaterials with high abrasion and high scratch resistance or biomedical usage (controlled release drug delivery systems) are of ...

Radioactive sources are widely used in the fields of medicine, industry, agriculture, research and education, as well as having military applications. This guide sets out a risk-based ranking of radioactive sources and practices into five categories, in line with IAEA standards, by which risk informed decisions can be made in a graded approach to the regulatory control of radioactive sources for the purposes of safety and security. ...

Nucleonic gauges or nucleonic control systems (NCSs) have been widely used in the industries of both developed and developing Member States to increase the recovery of oil and minerals, to improve the quality of the products derived from them and to optimize industrial processing of raw materials. It is considered that of all industrial radioisotope techniques, NCS technology is by far the most requested among other industrial radioisotope ...

This report provides the most recent reactor data available, summarizing general information on power reactors operating, under construction, or shut down, and on performance data on reactors operating in the Agency's member states.
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There are various locations around the world that have been affected by radioactive residues, the result of past peaceful activities or result from military activities, including residues from the testing of nuclear weapons. Stimulated by concern about the state of the environment, movement away from military nuclear activities and improved opportunities for international cooperation, attention in many countries has turned to assessing and, ...

In this study, the IAEA assesses the radiological situation at the atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa in French Polynesia where France had conducted a nuclear weapon testing program between 1996 and 1996.
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This Safety Requirements publication is concerned with providing protection for people and the environment from the hazards associated with waste management activities related to disposal, i.e. hazards that could arise during the operational period and following closure. It sets out the protection objectives and criteria for geological disposal and establishes the requirements that must be met to ensure the safety of this disposal option, ...