Reliable Radiation Safety is of comprehensive importance for the (radiological) safety of NORM affected industries and controls all the technical solutions GeoEnergy Consult provides. Thus, first of all we address Radiation Safety as a cross-cutting issue ...
If transport of ore, processed concentrates or generated residues from mining of Uranium, Rare Earths or any further commodity containing Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) is needed, the strict class 7 requirements apply...
Radioecological Assessments are essentially based on monitoring the surrounding of NORM projects through field and lab determination of quality parameters of all important environmental media. Regular monitoring programs accompany the whole life-cycle of NORM projects...
Through certain operational processes or decommissioning activities NORM waste can (unintentionally) accumulate. Managing those wastes requires a well-considered sequence of safe processing:
1. Characterization (and analysis of operational processes),
2. Treatment (also called conditioning or pre-disposal) and subsequent
3. Disposal (i.e. long-term safe containment/storage)...
Fundamentally, decontamination of equipment and facilities can have two different objectives:
- Re-use of equipment (to enhance efficiency/minimize consumption)
- Pre-treatment to facilitate subsequent disposal of spent
equipment/facilities ...
Decommissioning requires removal of eventual radioactive contamination from equipment and facilities and subsequent demolition/dismantling. Overall goal is radiologically safe removal of equipment and facilities for release from particular regulatory control ...
GeoEnergy Consult's approach is to avoid contamination (or even generation of legacies) already during proper operation.
However, if production ceases, former conditions are established as far as reasonable and removal of yet prevailing contamination from the site ground can become necessary...