Radiological Control

Abstract

Mission Description: The Radiation Detection, Indication and Computation (RADIAC) Program is responsible for providing radiation monitoring instruments that detect and measure ionizing radiation. These instruments are used on all Navy, Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command vessels, and at every Navy shore installation, in order to ensure the safety of personnel, continuity of operations in radiological contingencies, and protection of the environment. Justification: Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 20 (10CFR20) requires RADIAC instruments be used to ensure the safety of personnel who work with or are exposed to radioactive materials in their work. Additionally, the Navy's mission requires personnel and ships to have the ability to operate in radiological environments and the ability to identify and interdict radiological Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Navy programs that require RADIAC instruments for Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) reasons under the provisions of 10CFR20 include Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Nuclear Weapons, Medical, and Radiological Affairs Support. Non-OSH programs include Radiological Defense, Consequence Management, Training, Technical (RADIAC calibration, shielding evaluation, research, etc.) and Radiological Search (maritime interdiction and radiological search missions to locate or intercept WMD). This budget item develops new, highly reliable, more easily calibrated, easy to care and maintain, light weight and modern RADIAC instruments in order to improve the effectiveness of radiation safety, to make instruments simpler to use, and to reduce life cycle costs. The ultimate goal is to replace old, bulky, costly to maintain and repair, unreliable and obsolete instrumentation with multifunction equipment that can be automatically calibrated at greatly reduced cost. This budget item also provides for improvement to nuclear weapons intrinsic radiation (gamma and neutron) shielding calculations, mixed field (neutron and gamma) dosimetry, and in neutron measurement. The objective is to develop less costly and more effective integral shielding for better personnel protection and safety. Improvement in personnel dosimetry and neutron measurement is also a major emphasis.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0603542N_4_1319_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: Reduced FY13 funding by $64K for sequestration reductions. All Projects: Reduced FY15 funding by $129K due to the Department's decision to reduce contracted services.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Civilian Personnel
• Detection
• Detectors
• Dosimetry
• Ionizing Radiation
• Marine Nuclear Propulsion
• Materials
• Measurement
• Nuclear Propulsion
• Nuclear Weapons
• Particles
• Procurement
• Radiation
• Radioactive Materials
• Radiological Weapons
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction
• X Rays

Fields of Study

• Physics

Readers

• Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.