Radioactive articles in the household trash of nuclear medicine patients are appearing at solid waste landfills that have installed radiation monitors to prevent the entry of any detectable radioactivity, and alarms are going off around the country. These monitors are set to alarm at extremely low activity levels.
With increasing frequency, radioactive material is detected in solid waste by monitors installed at processing and disposal facilities.
All of these potential sources have led to radioactive materials entering waste streams in surprising ways, sometimes with serious consequences.
Doziimetrs Ltd provides full cargo control according to the waste class, adjusting the alarm level as low as possible and justified.
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Most waste and recycling facilities are prohibited from handling materials containing radioactivity. Many operators also do not fully appreciate the opportunity they have to prevent it from ever getting inside.
Exposure has the potential to cause serious effects for both human health and the environment, so it’s important for facilities to verify the absence of radioactivity in shipments. Screening practices are readily available — and they work — but operators have no way of identifying a problem load without proper monitoring equipment.
