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Air Contamination Control in Radiochemistry Labs

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The topics of this lecture will include: System to monitor air contamination in Radiochemistry Labs Environmental safety: modelling of dispersion in the atmosphere of contaminated gasses and population dose estimation Safety and shielding of Hot Cells Internal contamination risk to staff during synthesis Modelling for dose determination from urine sample measurements

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    Note: heuristic refers to a method, commonly informal, to help solve a problem. It is particularly used for a method that often rapidly leads to a solution that is usually reasonably close to the best possible answer. Heuristics are “rules of thumb”, educated guesses, intuitive judgments or simply common sense.

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Calandrino, R. (2011). Air Contamination Control in Radiochemistry Labs. In: Lemoigne, Y., Caner, A. (eds) Radiation Protection in Medical Physics. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0247-9_19

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