Radiological Protection And Safety: A Practitioner’S Guide

This book is not a text book but a very useful and unique reference book entitled Radiological Protection and Safety “ A Practitioners Guide designed to guide people who are interested in radiological protection Health Physicists (HPs) Radiological Safety Officers (RSOs) and Medical Physicists operators regulators or anyone responsible for radiological protection of the workers the patients the public and the environment.  Radiation protection is a multi-disciplinary subject. The concepts of radiological protection radiation protection standards regulations types of radiation sources and the applications are continually changing over time. There are newer challenges to practitioners and facility management to ensure radiological protection and safety of the personnel and the environment during normal operations and in emergency situations. </br></br>There is a need to update their overall knowledge while developing processes/technologies in public domain on peaceful applications in medicine research industry and agriculture. Optimization of protection is the key to keep the exposures low. Public safety is of prime concern. This reference guide is written by a practitioner who has decades of experience in radiological safety and regulation. The guide is organized in about 300 pages and in 18 chapters is intended to serve the purpose of finding all radiological safety related topics in one place including the biological effects of radiation exposure along with the recent references. It also covers the updated status on issues and topics of concern in natural radiation sources nuclear fuel cycle operations and in the wide variety of applications of radiation and radioisotopes. Nuclear and Radiological emergency is considered important and is separately covered in the chapter on radiological protection in emergency exposure situations.