Radionuclide laboratory

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A radionuclide laboratory or radionuclide laboratory is a laboratory in which unsealed radioactive substances above the exemption limit are handled. In Germany, "unsealed radioactive substances" are all radioactive substances with the exception of "sealed" radioactive substances in accordance with Section 5, Paragraph 34 of the Radiation Protection Act . The definition of “enclosed radioactive substances” can also be found here. The "exemption limit" of the activity or specific activity is specified in Appendix III of the Radiation Protection Ordinance for each radionuclide .

The DIN  25425 "radionuclide" provides "rules for the interpretation" (Part 1), "rules for preventive fire protection " (part 3), rules for the protection of persons employed (part 4), and "rules for the decontamination of surfaces" (Part 5).

A special case of the radionuclide laboratory is the hot laboratory (or active laboratory ) for the handling and production of radioactive drugs for nuclear medicine diagnostics and therapy. In addition to DIN 25425 and the Radiation Protection Ordinance, the legal basis for the establishment and operation of such a hot laboratory is the Directive "Radiation Protection in Medicine", the Medicines Act , the Medical Devices Act , DIN EN61303 (activity meter ), DIN 6855 ( constancy tests ), DIN 6854 ( Technetium-99m generator ), DIN 6843 (handling of unsealed radioactive substances in the Medicine) and DIN 6844 (equipment of nuclear medicine companies).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "DIN 25425 Radionuclide Laboratories, Part 1 (DIN 25425-1: 2013-05)", DIN German Institute for Standardization eV, Berlin, Beuth Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2013.
2. ↑ "Law on protection against the harmful effects of ionizing radiation (Radiation Protection Act - StrlSchG)" of June 27, 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1966) accessed on April 14, 2020
3. ↑ Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for hot laboratories in nuclear medicine (PDF, 157 kB) of the German Society for Nuclear Medicine (nuklearmedizin.de); accessed on December 28, 2015.