Radiological Control

Abstract

The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $0.044M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. 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 (10 CFR 20) requires RADIAC instruments be used to ensure the safety of personnel who work with or who are exposed to radioactive materials in their jobs. 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) under the provisions of 10 CFR 20 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, tests and evaluates 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, 2020
• Source ID: 0603542N_4_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $0.044M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances and reduced by 0.013M for Navy Working Capital Fund rate changes.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Contracts
• Detection
• Detectors
• Dosimetry
• Ionizing Radiation
• Marine Nuclear Propulsion
• Materials
• Measurement
• Nuclear Propulsion
• Nuclear Weapons
• Procurement
• Prototypes
• Radiation Monitoring
• Radioactive Materials
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Fields of Study

• Physics

Readers

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