NATALIE COSTA ROLINDO
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Artigo IPEN-doc 27338 Inventory and characterization of categories 3-5 disused sealed radioactive sources2019 - ROLINDO, NATALIE C.; TESSARO, ANA P.G.; SMITH, RICARDO B.; CAMPOS, CESAR; SAID, YASSER; MARUMO, JULIO T.; VICENTE, ROBERTOBrazil has one of the biggest inventories of SRS in the world, not only because of the large industrial park, the well-developed health care infrastructure and the numerous mining operations, but also by the use of radioactive sources in consumer products, such as smoke detectors, lightning arresters, surge protectors and even cardiac pacemakers. Presently, the inventory of DSRS at the WML is of more than 10,000; if the sources from lightning arresters, smoke detectors and Ir-192 with activities above the clearance levels are included, the estimate is over 150,000. The Waste Management Laboratory (WML) of the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP) is responsible for the management and treatment of these sources. An important aspect to consider is that Brazil does not have a defined strategy or a protocol for screening and inventorying these sources, whose management was limited only to storage. The WML started the development of methods and operational work, to characterize and reduce the total volume of this inventory for the borehole-type final disposal facility yet to be constructed, where the DSRS will be disposed of. The information available from these sources is in a database created in 1980, when the sources began to be received. Several records on the FRSD that were checked are incomplete or simply incorrect, since there is no correspondence between the dates of entry of these sources in the storage and their physical characteristics. Some reasons can be listed to try to understand the divergences: the inspection when receiving the sources was not possible, no inspection procedure was defined, there were technical difficulties to open the packages. The objective of this work is to organize the inventory in a standardized way, control access, traceability, reduction of the necessary time to locate and characterize the sources upon reception, and of the repetitive work in the operational routine, and finally release of space in the storage.Dissertação IPEN-doc 27279 Determinação da atividade de fontes radioativas seladas de irídio-192 em desuso2020 - ROLINDO, NATALIE C.Fontes radioativas seladas de 192Ir são amplamente utilizadas em gamagrafia pela indústria em testes não destrutivos. Estas fontes são obtidas em um reator nuclear por meio da reação nêutron-gama com o radioisótopo natural do irídio e após uma vida útil de cerca de um ano, tornam-se "fontes radioativas seladas em desuso" (FRSD). Considerando a meia-vida de 73,8 dias e as atividades iniciais típicas do 192Ir disponíveis comercialmente, a atividade destas fontes deveria cair abaixo do nível de dispensa em um período de 5 a 6 anos, quando poderiam ser liberadas do controle regulatório. No entanto, após o decaimento, estas fontes ainda apresentam taxas de dose mensuráveis e atividade acima dos níveis de dispensa. Uma investigação sobre as causas indicou que as fontes apresentam radioatividade residual devido à presença de 60Co (T1/2 de 5,3 anos) e do segundo estado metaestável 192m2Ir (T1/2 de 241 anos). Portanto, essas se qualificam para deposição em repositório para fontes seladas de meia-vida longa. O objetivo deste trabalho foi o desenvolvimento de um método para determinar a atividade de, pelo menos, 6 mil fontes de 192Ir armazenadas no Serviço de Gerenciamento de Rejeitos Radioativos do IPEN. Espectrometria gama, medida da taxa de dose realizadas com um detector CZT portátil e simulação com o software Microshield® foram usados no método dose-para-atividade para determinar as atividades.