Radioactive Materials
A small amount of radioactive material used to ensure instrument functionality before operation.
What is a check source?
Radon is an odorless, radioactive ___________ that is naturally released from rocks, soil, and water.
What is gas?
This accident is considered the most serious accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history, although the radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on the public.
What is Three Mile Island?
This travel form is used when travel exceeds $500.
What is the B-1184 form?
Dosimetry for bureau staff is swapped out every...
What is quarter?
This term describes one of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but different mass numbers.
What is an isotope?
This is the EPA action level for radon in homes.
What is 4 pCi/L?
This catastrophic nuclear accident occurred in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, resulting from a flawed reactor design and operator errors. It released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment, leading to immediate deaths and long-term health effects for many people in the surrounding areas.
What is Chernobyl?
This state office is responsible for state employee parking.
What is the Office of General Services?
If you've lost your dosimetry badge, need to report an exposure, or review your dose record, reach out to this person.
Who is the Radiation Safety Officer? (David Skutt)
This isotope is used to measure 'young' groundwater (up to 30 years).
What is tritium?
The primary concern of being exposed to radon is this.
What is an elevated risk of developing lung cancer?
Following this accident in Japan in 2011, at least 164,000 residents of the surrounding area were permanently or temporarily displaced (either voluntarily or by evacuation order). The displacements resulted in at least 51 deaths as well as creating stress and fear of radiological hazards.
What is the Fukushima Daiichi incident?
New York State's central office for processing human resource and finance transactions common across agencies, including employee travel.
What is the Business Services Center?
Like TLDs, radiation passing through this type of dosimeter moves electrons into dosimetric traps. The electrons stay in these traps until a detector uses light of a specific wavelength to stimulate the traps.
What is an Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeter (OSLD)?
The half-life of Cobalt-60
What is 5.27 years?
This grant funds the radon program.
The State Indoor Radon Grant (SIRG)?
This location was the scene of a 1987 radioactive contamination accident after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital.
What is Goiania Brazil?
Bureau forms, guides, job aids, and reports can be found in this location.
What is the BERP SharePoint site?
Dosimetry is typically worn in this region of the body to ensure accurate dose measurements.
What is the torso?
Officially known as AN602, this is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, with a yield of 50 to 58 megatons of TNT.
What is the Tsar Bomba?
A home with a radon mitigation system should be retested this often.
What is every 2 years?
This protective action could dramatically reduce your radiation exposure in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation.
What is shelter-in-place?
Out-of-State travel forms need to be submitted this much in advance to be considered for approval.
What is 8-12 weeks?
Radiation passing through this type of dosimeter moves electrons into dosimetric traps. When the detector heats up (to a maximum of approximately 400º Celsius), the heat increase causes the trapped electrons to move and emit a light pulse, also known as luminescence.
What is a Thermo-Luminescent Dosimeter (TLD)?