Radiation protection law and its practical implementation

• Contents

Part 1 | Basic principles of radiation protection

• Introduction and basics: Fundamentals of radiation protection (principles, differentiation from nuclear safety)
• Radiation protection law in 2017/2018: National and international radiation protection: UNSCEAR, ICRP, IAEA BSS, Euratom basic standards
• Regulatory approach to radiation protection
• Concept of radioactive substances

Part 2 | The Radiation Protection Act (StrlSchG) and the Radiation Protection Ordinance (StrlSchV)

• Scope of application and validity
• Exposure situations
• Authorisations, activities, NORM: authorisation requirements, SEWD, transport, NORM
• Radon
• Basics, protection, precautionary areas
• Building products, contaminated sites

Part 3 | Effects on operational practice

• Dose limits, dose guidance values: limits, exposure assessment, justification, optimisation, dose guidance values, IWRS
• Operational organisation of radiation protection: SSV and SSB, MPE, radiation protection areas, radiation protection instructions
• Expertise
• Radiation protection register, radiation passport
• Official supervision
• Radiation protection supervision, supervision programme

Part 4 | Nofall protection and emergency preparedness

• Previous emergency management system

• Reorganisation of emergency response, dovetailing approach between state and federal authorities

• Emergency management system(s)

• Emergency protection, beyond disaster control

• Radioactive emergency: national and international management

• In reality?

• Definition of incidents

Part 4 | Radiation protection in the back end

• Radioactive waste
  • Basics
  • Legal basis
  • Obligations arising from the AtEV
  • Release, surrender and disposal of demolition waste

• Release, surrender and disposal of demolition waste

  • Delimitation release/issue

  • Legal basis

  • Types of release

  • Release values and release limits

  • Procedure

  • Special regulations

  • Release of liquids

  • Building rubble & excavated soil

  • Special case: People & animals

  • Release in other (EU) countries

• Summary and discussion

Date                  by arrangement

Location                        In-house seminar

Price                     on request

Speakers           Dr Maria Poetsch, TÜV SÜD Energietechnik, Filderstadt; Dr Christian Raetzke, lawyer, Leipzig

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