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ES&H Home > Departments > Radiation Protection >
Radiation Physics > A Radiation
Physicist's Job |
Radiation Physicists:
The primary responsibility of a Radiation Physicist lies
in the shielding design, radiological considerations and
operational aspects of the facilities to which he/she has
been assigned.
Job Description
- To perform calculations related to shielding and
other radiological aspects (activation, etc.) and
provide specifications for the design of new facilities
and experiments.
- To ensure safe beam containment by:
- Assisting in beam-line design
- Calculating radiation dose rates due to beam mis-steering
- Calculating heat loads for critical collimators
and other devices.
- To assist in the design of the Personnel Protection
System (PPS) and Beam (BCS).
- To supervise initial radiation measurements and
establish area monitoring at new beam lines.
- To consult with experimenters on detector design and
accelerator physicists on machine design.
- To assist experimenters in determining causes of
this radiation backgrounds and in designing shields to
minimize the problem.
- To provide assistance to engineers and physicists in
avoiding or minimizing radiation damage problems (e.g.
perform calculations and provide high-dose dosimetry in
the megarad range).
- To develop and maintain radiation transport codes to
be used for detector design, machine, development,
radioactivation, shielding, and dosimetry.
- To ensure safe operation of beam lines by creating
procedures (e.g. Beam Authorizations Sheets), in
conjunction with the Accelerator Department Safety
Office.
- Participate in the development of the Radiation
Safety Program at SLAC (involves Radiation Safety Work
Control forms and commenting on DOE orders, regulations
and internal policies and procedures, and writing
technical basis documents.
- Participate in committees (internal and external)
that review the radiation safety program.
- Perform and publish research in Radiation Physics
related to the overall SLAC mission and participate in
professional development.
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