INTEGRATED OPERATIONAL DOSIMETRY SYSTEM AT CERN

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, upgraded its operational dosimetry system in March 2013 to be prepared for the first Long Shutdown of CERN's facilities. The new system allows the immediate and automatic checking and recording of the dosimetry data before and after interven...

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Published in:	Radiation protection dosimetry Vol. 173; no. 1-3; pp. 233 - 239
Main Authors:	Dumont, Gérald, Pedrosa, Fernando Baltasar Dos Santos, Carbonez, Pierre, Forkel-Wirth, Doris, Ninin, Pierre, Fuentes, Eloy Reguero, Roesler, Stefan, Vollaire, Joachim
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England 01-04-2017
Subjects:	Humans Particle Accelerators Radiation Dosage Radiation Monitoring Radiometry
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Summary:	CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, upgraded its operational dosimetry system in March 2013 to be prepared for the first Long Shutdown of CERN's facilities. The new system allows the immediate and automatic checking and recording of the dosimetry data before and after interventions in radiation areas. To facilitate the analysis of the data in context of CERN's approach to As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA), this new system is interfaced to the Intervention Management Planning and Coordination Tool (IMPACT). IMPACT is a web-based application widely used in all CERN's accelerators and their associated technical infrastructures for the planning, the coordination and the approval of interventions (work permit principle). The coupling of the operational dosimetry database with the IMPACT repository allows a direct and almost immediate comparison of the actual dose with the estimations, in addition to enabling the configuration of alarm levels in the dosemeter in function of the intervention to be performed.
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ISSN:	0144-8420 1742-3406
DOI:	10.1093/rpd/ncw327