Instrumentation Assessment
| Health Physics |
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| Applied Health Physics Evaluations / Investigations |
| Audit Services for Radiological Facilities |
| Instrumentation Assessment |
| Standards Development |
| Health Physics Training |
New applications or reuse of radiological instrumentation requires that the instruments be tested to verify performance. The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) has conducted extensive operational evaluations of specialized instrumentation.
For example, Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed facilities increasingly want to deploy in situ gamma spectroscopy systems as part of the post-remediation measurements to confirm decontamination. ORISE is investigating and evaluating the issues that arise when these systems are used like this, particularly for the analysis of soil.
Homeland Defense Equipment Reuse (HDER) Program
ORISE played a key role in startup of the Department of Justice’s and Department of Energy’s (DOE) Homeland Defense Equipment Reuse (HDER) and Radiation Safety Without Borders (RSWB) programs in 2001. ORISE support included assembling and evaluating surplus radiation detection equipment available from DOE facilities before shipping it to first responder agencies across the country.
ORISE continues to support the HDER program by providing technical input. In addition, one of its staff serves as the HDER point of contact for the responder community in Tennessee through the National and local Health Physics Society.
Calling on our in-house training development experts, ORISE also created a training CD-ROM to accompany the instrument kits. It serves as a just-in-time refresher training and can be used during an emergency or as new staff members join.