Radioative materials transportation main routes in Brasil Radiaction Protection aspects about Radioactive Materiasl Trasnportation

• Autor(a) principal: Reis e Vaz, Solange dos
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Andrade, Fernando de Menezes, Aleixol, Luiz Cláudio Martins, Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear, Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IEN
• Texto Completo: http://carpedien.ien.gov.br:8080/handle/ien/2532
• topic: INAC 2007; Radioactive materials transportation; Radiaction protection

The heavy transportation in Brazil is generally done by highways. The radioactive material transportation follow this same rule. Whenever a radioactive material is carried by the road, by the sea or by the air, in some cases, a kind of combination of those transportation ways, the transport manager has to create a Transportation Plan and submit it to CNEN. Only after CNEN´s approval, the transportation can be done. The plan must have the main action on Radiation Protection, giving responsabilities and showing all the directing that will be take. Although, the brazilian´s highways are not in good conditions, one could say that some of them are not good enough fot any kind of transportation. But we are facing radioactive material use increase but the hospitals and industries, that the reason it´s much more commun that kind of tansportation nowadays. So, because of that, a special attetion by the governments must be provide to those activities. This paper goal is to show the real condictions of some importants highways in Brazil in a radioactive protection´s perpective and give some suggestions to adjust some of those roads to this new reality.