Mandate

The activities of the Radiation Safety Systems Division encompass development of radiation monitoring systems, its utilization in strengthening emergency preparedness as well as ensuring safety of the workers and environment during normal operation, internal dose monitoring, providing calibration services as India’s Designated Institute for ionizing radiation metrology, and R&D activities associated with Environmental Modeling. These activities adhere to the following specific mandates.
• Design and development of radiation monitoring systems, radioactivity measurement systems, models and tools for nuclear/radiological emergency preparedness and response, and software applications for automation of routine monitoring activities.
• Emergency preparedness for Trombay site, providing radiation protection services, monitoring and clearance of scrap material inside BARC for radioactivity contamination, technical support to Crisis Management Group of DAE (CMG, DAE) for responding to radiological emergencies in public domain as well as for various inter departmental (NDMA, MHA, and defence forces) activities, capacity building for emergency preparedness, and R&D activities related with emergency preparedness.
• Measurement of internally deposited radionuclides and internal dose assessment, bio-kinetic modeling studies, and development of in-vivo and in-vitro monitoring systems/techniques for routine and emergency bioassays.
• As the Designated Institute for Ionising Radiation Metrology of India, to develop, establish and maintain various ionizing radiation measurement standards and to provide traceable calibration for ionizing radiation measurement in the country.
• Development and applications of atmospheric and hydro-geological models, Radiological Impact Assessment models for environmental discharges, and meteorological data collection and analysis for the Trombay site.
Health Physics Division is the devoted to the protection of humans and their environment from potential radiation hazards. Develop measures to control radiological hazards; monitors personnel and facilities to ensure that health hazards are within permissible limits stipulated by the national regulatory body. Covers activities from front- end to the back-end of the fuel cycle, from the assessment of mining sites to reprocessing of the fuels. Activities starts with the conceptualisation of a radiation facility with the radiological impact assessments, design of shielding and criticality safety measures, safety measures to be taken during operations, handling of unusual events, emergency preparedness of the plant site to the decommissioning of radiological establishments. Health physics division also ensures safety of the accelerators, public health and environmental impacts of the operating radiological installations.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Division carrying out Environmental Radiological Surveillance around Nuclear Power Plants across the country, Trombay and Visakhapatnam, all DAE facilities using TLDs, designing and developing Environmental Radiation Monitoring Systems, establishing countrywide Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network under IERMON, Environmental Monitoring, Assessment and Modeling of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive contaminants, Capacity building for nuclear forensic analysis.
Planning, scheduling and carrying out industrial hygiene and safety surveillance activities that includes- Industrial hygiene surveillance in occupational environment at the various operating facilities of BARC, beryllium facilities, Industrial Safety Management and implementation of accident prevention programme, Contribution to project safety reviews through HAZOP study review, CFSRC, DSRCs. ULSCs and PLSCs, execution of conventional emergency preparedness planPlanning, organising and executing all pertinent R&D activities in the field of industrial hygiene and safety,calibration of safety related equipment.