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Iraqi Radioactive Source Regulatory Authority

Baghdad 2015

Iraqi Radioactive Source Regulatory Authority (IRSRA) is an independent , self-sufficient (financially independent) regulatory authority in Iraq that has the power by law ( No. 72-2004) to control and regulate radioactive sources (belong to the state and private sector) . IRSRA issued internal system and instructions (system no.1 for 2006 ).


Introducation

Issue regulations for detailed instructions and control measures regarding ــــ

ownership, use, transport, handling, treatment, storage and disposal of: • Sealed and unsealed radioactive sources. • Instruments and equipments containing radioactive sources. To ensure safety and security of all radiation practices.

:Grant authorization for these practices that include ــــ• Import of radioactive sources. • Re-export of radioactive sources. • Transport of radioactive sources. • Ownership of radioactive sources. • Use of radioactive sources.


Main functions of IRSRA

. : Regulatory inspection missions ــــ IRSRA shall conduct the oversight inspection industry practices

which reached up to 72 sites addition to the medical practice and research and educational sites which amounted to 71, clearly increased from previous years that because the expansion in the industrial and scientific field as follows:

Iraqi Radioactive Source

Regulatory Authority

Total Industrial Medical

Research Educational

Year

61 28 10 12 11 2007 99 37 17 10 35 2008 74 34 5 4 31 2009 88 41 4 4 39 2010 85 31 9 9 36 2011 88 29 8 11 40 2012 121 52 8 16 45 2013

143 72 8 16 47 2014

Inspection missions for years 2007 - 2014


0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Industrial

Medical

Research

Educational

Growth of inspection missions


IRSRA established project and coordinate with custom to control the radioactive movement through the borders in Iraq .

Operation mechanism of our project. It focuses on creating an instructed competent team from custom to

operate the devices according to the specific procedure (diagram no.1


Follow-up the border points to control illicit trafficking concerning radioactive ــــ

sources and materials, with close cooperation with Custom authorities.

Diagram No.1 Operation Procedures For

Securing Iraqi Border from Illicit Trafficking of Radioactive Sources

Notification

Notification

Operation procedures

• Iraq Radioactive sources Regulatory Authority (IRSRA)

- Regulatory functions according to code of conduct for the safety and security of radioactive sources .

- Supervision on Implementing of work procedures.

- Calibration of equipments and instruments.

Ministry of Science and Technology

-Regular periodic and emergency maintenance to equipment and instruments. -Transfer and storage of radioactive materials according to regulatory measures of IRSRA.

Custom Office Authority -Equipment operation. - Radiation survey for vehicles , trucks and packages. -Check abnormal radiation levels. -Notification to Iraq Radioactive Sources Regulatory Authority (IRSRA) for emergency situations.


• Putting radioactivity survey devices and systems into operation and check up their effectiveness.

• Recording Radiation Background. • Doing radiation surveys of trucks, busses personal vehicles, lagged, bags

and individuals according to the IAEA recommendations and measures. • Check up and classify radiation (false alarm, Innocent , real alarm ) . • Coordinating with the supporting sides according to the Action Plan of

Controlling Illicit Trafficking. • Check up the authorization of approved nuclear movements and record

them.

Action steps in border:


a. Creating well instructed technicians to put the devices into operation. • the workshops for standard Concept of radiation and measuring

system to Iraqi staff hold by IAEA . • IRSRA hold many training course for standard concept of radiation

and measuring system in (Bagh. Basrah ,Erbil,)and any check point border which visited by our IRSRA inspectors to custom staff.

Implementation requirements


b. Two kinds of Radioactive Survey Devices are required:-

•First: Fixed Survey Meters, for surveillance of trucks and other vehicles( till now under administration arrangement) .

•Second: Portable Survey Meters, for surveillance of buses, bags luggage and people.

So far IRSRA distributed devices of Radeye and Inspector 1000 to the custom to many border check points (Table no.1).


Inspector 1000 Radeye

Name Of Border Post

1 2 Um Qaser 1 1 Al-Shalamjah 2 2 Khor Al-Zubair 3 3 Safwan 4 1 Abu floos 5 1 Al-Ma'akl 6 1 Al-Basrah airport 7 1 2 Ibrahim Al-khalil 8 1 2 Zurbatia 9 2 AL-Muntheria 10 3 Traibeel 11 2 Al-Waleed 12 2 AL-kaem 13 1 3 Rabea'a 14 2 Sulaymania airport 15 1 Bashmakh 16 1 Haj Imran 17 1 5 Baghdad Int. airport 18

1 Al-Sheeb 19 1 Erbil airport 20 1 Al-Shalljia 21 1 Al-Najaf airport 22 1 Ar’ar 23 1 complex Export 24

The total number of Inspector 1000 Equal (5) The total number of Radeye Equal (42)

Table no.1


Bashmakh

Ibrahim Al-Khalil Rabea’a

Erbil Airport

Sulamania Airport

Al-Waleed Al-Qa’am

Al-Sheeb

Al-Ma’akl Khor Al-Zuair

Traibetttrael

Ar’ar

Haj Omran

Syria

Jordan

Iran

Turkey

Kuwait

Al-Muntheria

Al-Zurbatia

Al-Basrah Airport

Alhalamjah

Complex Export

Al-Najaf Airport

Al-Shalljia

Baghdad Airport

Abu floos

Q.Arabia Saudia

Border Safwan


IRSRA continuously contact those borders as to receive report on application of regulatory measures on controlling border from illicit trafficking of radioactive sources as inspection visits to insure performance.

Follow up and reporting


IRSRA doing the gamma survey by using GR-460 system ( NaI detectors) which installed in mini bus to search radioactive sources was missing before 2003.

IRSRA Leading the national efforts to protect the public health through ongoingــــ

efforts to survey, locate and retrieve orphan sources in Iraq.

a. IRSRA established many projects for radiation survey to Iraqi

governorates .

We have discovered orphan sources and our response was as follows:


Al-Fatih Plant - We discovered 12 radioactive sources (Eu-152) with activity about (400mCi) that be used

for lightning arrestor before , and we transferred to main store in Al-Tuwaitha


Al-Fatih Plant belong to Hateen company (MIC)


Each housing contain two radioactive sources (Eu-152)


We discovered under the street Cs-137 with activity(280)uci Orfaly City in Baghdad


We discovered two radioactive sources (Eu-152) about (20m) becide the main street (Baghdad- Kut) and we transferred to the

main store in Al-Tuwaitha


Jurf Al-Nadaf

We discovered radioactive source Eu-152 with activity (400mci) south of Baghdad and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha On 19/03/2012


Mahmudya

We discovered radioactive source Eu-152 with activity (400mci) we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 15/12/2009


Al-Mashtal Location

We discovered radioactive source Eu-152 with activity (400mci) we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 12/06/2010


Al-Nada’a Company

The Erbil Steel company detected 8 orphan sources (Eu-152) and transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha on 16/02/2011

Erbil governorate

We discovered orphan source Eu-152 about (100m ) from main street with depth about (2m) south of Baghdad and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha on 24/07/2011

A( Iraqi Radioactive Source Regulatory Authority

Basmaya Location

We discovered orphan source Ra -226 in north of Baghdad and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 13/12/2011


Al-Taji Location

We discovered orphan source Eu-152 in Hamzza Sq. and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha on 22/11/2011


Balidiyat Location

IRSRA staff discovered orphan source Eu-152 in Fallujah city and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 14/02/2012


IRSRA staff discovered orphan source Eu-152 in Fallujah and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 14/02/2012


Fallujah City (1)

We discovered orphan source Eu-152 in Mosiab (Camp Al-Hameih).and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 29/03/2010

Al-Hillah City

Iraqi Radioactive Source Regulatory

Authority

We discovered orphan source Eu-152 in zero sector and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 3/06/2011


SADER CITY

We discovered orphan source Eu-152 in Medical collage and we transferred to the main store in Al-Tuwaitha site on 2012

AL Ramadi Governorate


We discovered 1 Radioactive sourses in maysan province


We discovered 1 Radioactive sourses in AL Amary area - Baghdad


We discovered 11 Radioactive sourses in Wassit province


Retrieval date Activity Each one

Quantity and type Sources

Location No.

2009 0.4Ci Inside of Housing 12 sources (Eu-152)

Fatih comp 1

2010 0.4Ci Inside of Housing 1 source (Eu-152)

Mashtal city 2

2010

2012

0.4Ci

0.4Ci

Inside of Housing 1 source (Eu-152)

Inside of Housing

1 source (Eu-152)

Mahmudya City

Mahmudya City

3

Orphan sources recovered by IRSRA




Location No.

2009 280µCi Inside of Housing 1 source (Cs-137)

Orfaly City 4

2009 250mCi Inside of Housing 2 sources (Cs-137)

Al Rashid camp 5


Sadder city 6


Al Nidaa comp 7

2010 0.4Ci Inside of Housing 4 sources (Eu-152)

Jurf Al Nadaf 8

2010 200mCi Inside of Housing 1 source (Cs-137)

Al Musaiab city 9





Location No.

2011 269 (µSv/h) Inside of Housing 1 source (Ra-226)

Hilla Nader city 10

2011 400mCi Inside of Housing 1 source (Eu-152)

Basmaya - Baghdad

11

2011 2012

1 µCi 1 µCi

Inside of Housing 8 source (Eu-152) 2 sources (Ra-226)

Erbil steel 12

2011 Inside of Housing 1 source (Ra-226)

Al Taji - Baghdad 13


Baladiat city - Baghdad

14

2012 400mCi Inside of Housing 2 sources (Eu-152)

Faluja city 15





Location No.


Al Ramadi – Medical Collage

16

2012 400mCi Inside of Housing 2 sources (Eu-152)

Karbalaa – Husainya

17

2013 400 µci under the road Eu-152

AL Amary Baghdad/area

18

2014 584µSv/h (11) Ra-226 Wassit province 19 2014 34.6 mS v/h in bog water

Cs-137 maysan province 20



The IRSRA have focused effort to the both side (on- site, national emergency plan) as follows : On-site emergency plans . as a result of the many applications for radioactive sources in scientific field that caused high

possibility of radiological accidents therefore these institutions to prepare the emergency plan and the IRSRA took it upon themselves to activate the project with these institutions to prepare the local emergency plan . as these follows

. doing the inspection field and check the emergency plan in the site.

. Invitation the relevant authorities periodically structured according the mechanism and a suitable table .

. Discussion the previous local plans and maintenance them through the program and schedule which included scientific lectures and discussions.

. Prepare and write emergency plans according to recent discussion .

. approval of the emergency plans after evaluating .


--- Preparation and maintaining the National Emergency Plan that deal with radiological accidents, and supervising Local Emergency Plans for each authorized activity.

– Continue with the other sites in accordance the schedule in the program.

After a series of meetings among the Iraqi competent authorities for five years, As Succession was done to prepare national emergency plan in which contributed to several ministries, as IRSRA, MOST, environment, health, defense, interior, and the Ministry of State for National Security .

National emergency plan


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