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During a major international soccer tournament, Bertin Nuclear deployed its environmental radiological monitoring system to ensure continuous surveillance of event sites, addressing the rare but real risk of radiological threats. The IAEA actively encourages host countries to deploy radiological detection and monitoring ...
The company has a strategic partnership with FlyCam UAV, announced last fall, that incorporates FlyCam UAV's Cypher 6, a commercial-grade hexacopter, and The NEO, an all-weather commercial co-axial octocopter, with US Nuclear Corp’s DroneRad aerial radiation detection system. DroneRad detects particles that contain alpha, beta, gamma and neutron radiation. ...
This Initiative identifies actions that utilities can take to improve their management and response to instances where the inadvertent release of radioactive substances may result in low but detectible levels of plant-related materials in subsurface soils and water, even when these are well below the NRC limits pertaining to the protection of public health and safety. One of the ...
Finally, we stress the importance of measurements in a context of information and openness.Keywords: orphaned sources, radioactivity, detection, monitoring, contamination, radiological dispersal devices, safeguards, emergency response, emergency management, waste management, emergency preparedness, radiological ...
A discussion of monitoring during a radiological emergency response is presented. This paper focuses on a response for the USA, but many principles would also apply for other countries. ...
This document describes data collection systems and procedures used by the US Department of Energy Aerial Measuring System (AMS) in response to a radiological emergency. The discussion is split into two parts: (1) those systems used on the fixed-wing aircraft and (2) those systems used on the helicopters. ...