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Aside from the basic elements of time, distance and shielding, and a comprehensive set of regulations and high-quality standards, a management system properly established, and a solid groundwork for notification , authorization, and inspection are key components for a stable and sustainable safety regime.
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Bear in mind that regulatory authority could be a system of authorities like in the United States.
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A health professional with specialist education and training in the medical uses of radiation, who is competent to perform independently or to oversee a radiological procedure—a procedure in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine or radiation therapy, or a planning procedure, image guided interventional procedure or other interventional procedure involving radiation.
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A byproduct material is a radioactive material (except special nuclear material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or using special nuclear material: (1) tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content; (2) any discrete source of 226Ra that is produced, extracted, or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical, or research activity; or any material that has been made radioactive by use of a particle accelerator and is produced, extracted, or converted after extraction for use for a commercial, medical, or research activity; (3) any discrete source of naturally occurring radioactive material, other than source material, that the Commission determines would pose a threat similar to the threat posed by a discrete source of 226Ra to the public health and safety for use in a commercial, medical, or research activity.
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Source material means either the element thorium or the element uranium, provided that the uranium has not been enriched in the isotope uranium-235. Source material also includes any combination of thorium and uranium, in any physical or chemical form, or ores that contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0.05 %) or more of uranium, thorium, or any combination thereof. Depleted uranium (leftover from uranium enrichment) is considered source material.
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Domenech, H. (2017). The Management System for Safety. In: Radiation Safety. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42671-6_10
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