The Radiation Protection Surveillance in the Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf

The "Austrian radiation protection law" (1) provides for companies with nuclear plants besides a Radiation Protection Officer a "Radiation protection supervising department" for surveillance of such plants. At the Research Centre Seibersdorf a "Supervising department for radiation protection" was established, headed by the "Radiation protection officer " and charged with this surveillance tasks and responsible to the management and the competent authority. Following departments in the Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf were supervised by the "department of radiation protection: The "ASTRA-reactor (12 MW)", the department of "waste management", the department of the "chemical process technology", the department of "radiopharmaceutical production" - called "Radiopharmaca", some "laboratories for working with open radioactive materials" and the "safeguard analytical laboratory" of the International Atomic Energy Agency "IAEA".