Competency information
Details
Undertake room design from first principles for a nuclear medicine facility and specify the radiation design features
Considerations
- Operational design requirements Practices and workloads
- Properties of radiation source
- Properties of construction and shielding materials
- Layout and influence on radiation levels
- Design constraints
- Contamination control by design
- Discharge pathways
- Protection of staff, members of the public and the environment
- Methods for modelling radiation levels
- Engineering controls, safety and warning systems
- Features limiting and controlling contamination
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Specify design features for new facilities or services involving the use of radiation |
| # 3 | Outcome Specify radiation protection and control features required for new facilities involving the use of radiation |