MoECC Enhances Supervision of Facilities Utilizing Radioactive Materials

Radioactive Materials

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has enhanced its oversight of facilities using radioactive materials, focusing on detecting radiation levels and ensuring they stay within safe limits. This initiative, in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), includes the development of advanced radiation detection devices.

These new devices boost the capabilities of MoECC's Radiation Control Department in radiation safety and security by accurately detecting and locating radioactive materials and measuring the quality and quantity of emitted radiation through advanced methods.

This modernization effort underscores the department’s commitment to updating monitoring techniques to align with the latest technological advancements. This enhancement supports the department’s inspection and radiation safety activities, ensuring that medical, industrial, and research facilities using radioactive materials and radiation-emitting devices for peaceful purposes in Qatar comply with Law No. 31 of 2002 on radiation protection and its executive regulations.

MoECC’s cooperation with the IAEA is part of a broader technical cooperation program between Qatar and the IAEA, which was signed in 2022 and runs until 2027. This collaboration includes training programs, experience exchanges, enhancing technical capabilities, and calibrating radiation detection and monitoring equipment.

Represented by the Radiation Control Department, MoECC intensifies its oversight of radioactive materials and radiation-emitting devices used in peaceful nuclear energy applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, research, and other fields.

 

 

Source: The Peninsula Qatar