9 - 10 December 2026 in Vienna, Austria Gamma irradiators using cobalt-60 sources are operated by both multinational organisations with multiple sites and by smaller organisations with a single facility. They work under a variety of legal and regulatory frameworks and have their own internal arrangements and...
On June 14, 2021 the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington DC released the report titled Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies. The iia contributed to this report in various forms. Chapter 5 deals with radioactive sources and alternative technologies for medical...
Click on the following link to access the June 2021 Newsletter...
The IAEA recently hosted a virtual workshop to promote the beneficial applications or irradiation technologies. The International Irradiation Association and a number of iia members were in attendance and presented at the meeting. An IAEA article about the event can be found via this link: IAEA...
The IAEA held a virtual Technical Meeting ‘Denial of Shipment- Issues and Solutions’ on 23-26 March 2021. The Transport Facilitation Working Group (TFWG), of which iia is a member, had been coordinating its approach to this meeting and several members submitted presentations and papers to...
On 16th February the iia attended the IAEA Webinar on ‘Core-training for Security of Radioactive Material in Use and Storage and Associated Facilities’. This webinar highlighted some of the training provided by IAEA on security of radioactive material; physical protection systems for radioactive material and...
A request for proposal has been published by IAEA concerning the safe storage of disused cobalt-60 sources with facility upgrade and provision, installation and qualification of a new source rack with twelve new Co‐60 pencils in an existing panoramic irradiator. The facility is located at...
