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Public Library
Creado el: 06/10/2009
This is currently the Documentation Centre and Library specialising in subjects relating to radioactive waste management, its mission being to select, acquire, treat and disseminate all the companys supporting documentation and to attend to the users. The library is made up of various different types of materials subject-specific documents,...
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Cinta Castillo: “merece la pena visitar el Cabril”
Creado el: 05/10/2009
La consejera de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía destaca la tranquilidad que esta gestión aporta a las administraciones. La consejera de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de Andalucía, Cinta Castillo, afirmó hoy que merece la pena comprobar como la eficacia dEl Cabril en la gestión de residuos radiactivos de baja y media actividad se convierte...
Activities and Projects > Other activities
Emergency support activities
Creado el: 02/10/2009
Whenever a radioactive source is involved in any incident, Enresa participates in the corresponding response activities. These incidents include the deterioration of sources that cannot be removed conventionally, sources that lose their shielding, sources affected by fire, abandoned sources, sources undergoing accidents during transport,...
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
Protocol on the radiological surveillance of metallic materials
Creado el: 02/10/2009
In 1999 a specific radiological surveillance protocol was implemented with a view to removing possible radioactive sources arising accidentally in industrial activities, this including the participation of Enresa. Since then, practically all the industries involved in the recycling of metallic materials have joined under this protocol. Other...
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
Teletherapy equipment
Creado el: 02/10/2009
This type of equipment includes devices used in the field of medicine for different purposes. The equipment in question was not outside the legislation but at perfectly regulated installations; nevertheless, they were no longer in use, as a result of which their removal constituted a preventive measure. Between 1989 and 1991, 11 items of...
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
Ion smoke detectors
Creado el: 02/10/2009
As the company in charge of managing radioactive wastes, Enresas mission in this area consists of removing the small radioactive sources contained in ion smoke detectors following their separation from the rest of the components in specific treatment facilities, regulated by Royal Decree 2082005 on electrical and electronic apparatus and the...
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
radioactive lightning rods
Creado el: 02/10/2009
Since 1986 the Spanish legislation has established that the owners of radioactive lightning rods should either homologate them as radioactive facilities, if they wish to keep them, or request their disassembly by Enresa. Up until 2005, more than 22,000 radioactive lightning rod headers were removed, most of the containing Americium 241....
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
Orphan radioactive sources
Creado el: 02/10/2009
Orphan radioactive sources are those that appear outside the regulatory control system established, coming mainly from activities carried out in the past, and whose location and recovery have been promoted via a specific campaign ordered by the authorities. In 2007 Enresa initiated this campaign in response to the commission received from the...
Activities and Projects > Other activities > Radioactive waste management campaigns
Sources of radium-226
Creado el: 02/10/2009
Sources of radium, which were freely used in the past, were employed for the treatment of cancer. Their use in the private sector made their subsequent location more difficult. In the 1970s the Nuclear Energy Board now CIEMAT initiated a campaign for their location. In the 1980s the Nuclear Safety Council and Enresa were created, the former...
Activities and Projects > Other activities
Radioactive waste management campaigns
Creado el: 02/10/2009
Despite the level of rigour, operability and efficiency of the control systems currently implemented, in all countries including Spain there are radioactive wastes that for one reason or another remain outside the control systems of the authorities, mainly due to there not having been a legal and action framework in this respect in the...
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