Re: Licensing Radioactive Material Offshore Africa

[Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 03:47 AM 8/14/2004, Jose Julio Rozental wrote:

>Dear Rob,

>

>I think Angola has Regulatory Authority and receive IAEA Support, please GO TO

>

><http://www-tc.iaea.org/tcweb/projectinfo/default.asp>http://www-tc.iaea.org/tcweb/projectinfo/default.asp

>

>and look at Project Number ANG/9/002 -- You can see for this project the 

>IAEA's objective - To assist the Government of Angola to establish a 

>national radiation safety infrastructure in order to comply with the 

>international basic safety standards for protection against ionizing 

>radiation and for the safety of radiation sources.

>

>It's very important your procedure to follow country's regulation. To help 

>the country, I suggest you to prepare an operational  manual containing 

>topics on Radiation Protection,  Safety and Security  in Portuguese 

>(official language, best option), taking into account  the IAEA's 

>recommendation  based in the Safety Series 115 and ask for a meeting with 

>the Angola's Authority to approve it.





Jose: I think this project may not have resulted in any regulatory 

organization being set up (or at least functioning to the point that they 

are issuing licenses. I have forwarded the information you sent to our 

people in country for follow up.



Thanks & Regards

Doug



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