International Conference on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, Decommissioning, Environmental Protection and Remediation: Ensuring Safety and Enabling Sustainability

Characterization and Conditioning of Sealed Disused Radioactive sources in Ethiopia

Not scheduled

20m

M-Building (IAEA Headquarters, Vienna)

POSTER Track 5 - Practical experiences in integrating safety and sustainable development

Speaker

Mr Eshetu Zege

Description

When sealed radioactive sources are no longer in use, it should be repatriated to the country of
origin based on the agreement made during pre-import license request. However, most of them
could not be returned to the origin; therefore, disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS) have to
be managed locally to ensure the safety and security for long term storage. The Ethiopian
Radioactive Waste Management facility, under Ethiopia Technology Authority, is authorized to
operate the treatment, conditioning and storage of DSRS in the Country. This paper will describe
the operational procedures on characterization technique, identifation of unknown sources,
conditioning, registration and record keeping of DSRS. The registration and record keeping of
DSRS has been developed, and the national inventory of stored DSRS has been made up to date.

Presentation materials

Characterization and Conditioning of Sealed Disused Radioactive sources in Ethiopia.pdf