ICRP 2019 is all over. It was a great conference, with a lot of interesting developments in radiation protection talked about. The three main themes for the conference where Mining, Medicine, and Mars. The big three for radiation protection.
Mining NORM as ways was a big feature on mining day. As more efforts are being made to actually quantify the amount of NORM that is being moved around the globe, even more effort again is being directed towards understanding the exposure scenarios that NORM features in.
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Radiation protection will rely heavily upon computer simulation for the evaluation of new and complex exposure scenarios in the future. In particular, it will find increasing application in: the design and verification of new facilities and plant where shielding needs to be optimised; in the reconstruction of radiation incidents; and in radiation worker training.
Computer simulation is used widely in fields outside of radiation protection, where radiation sources and humans are in close proximity, most notably medicine, and specifically radiotherapy in its various forms.
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