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Re: Licensing Radioactive Material Offshore Africa

I received some inquiries from a government official there about regulation of well logging RA.  It seems they stumbled on our website, and thought we knew something about it.  That was about a year ago, and I told the person contacting us that I was sure NRC or IAEA had resource material to help them set up a program.  The entire interchange struck me as bizarre at the time.



Syd H. Levine

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  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Doug Aitken 

  To: Jose Julio Rozental ; Radsafe ; rob.w.powell@exxonmobil.com 

  Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:14 AM

  Subject: Re: Licensing Radioactive Material Offshore Africa





  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

     

    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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