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

Cameroon’s Experiences in Ensuring Safety and Security of Disused Radioactive Sources

Not scheduled

20m

M-Building (IAEA Headquarters, Vienna)

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

Speaker

Mr Augustin SIMO (National Radiation Protection Agency)

Description

In Cameroon, numerous radioactive sources were used before the establishment of the regulatory authority. Once operational, the authority inventoried and located certain category 1 and 2 sources previously outside regulatory control. Three category 1 disused radioactive sources were repatriated. In order to secure category 2 sources, the National Radiation Protection Agency (NRPA) undertook the construction of a temporary storage site for radioactive waste.
This communication presents the activities implemented in order to store in this site 28 sources of gamma-densimeter and 6 spent sources of cesium-137 that were used for brachytherapy.

Presentation materials

Simo's Abstract.docx