Environmental Radiation Monitoring During Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australian Ports

Abstract

The Commonwealth Government has determined conditions to be met when nuclear powered warships visit Australian ports. These conditions include a requirement that appropriate State/Territory and Commonwealth authorities provide a radiation monitoring program to determine whether any radioactivity has been discharged or accidentally released from a nuclear powered warship in port; to determine actual or potential levels of any consequent exposure to radiation of members of the public; and to provide this information within a timescale that allows remedial action to be taken. Part 1 of this document sets out the requirements of a radiation monitoring program capable of meeting these objectives. The fundamental arrangements and procedures for implementing the requirements are presented at Part 2 and provide a basis for the development of fully detailed, port specific, radiation monitoring programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197878

Entities

Organizations

  • Department of Defence

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Environment
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Fission Products
  • Gamma Rays
  • Hazards
  • Materials
  • Public Health
  • Radiation Monitoring
  • Radiation Protection
  • Radioactive Materials
  • Reactor Accidents
  • Risk
  • Safety
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics
  • Political science

Readers

  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).