Ionizing radiation in Algeria: safety and radiation protection rules (decree 26-311)

What the text says

The decree sets safety rules for sources of ionizing radiation and radiation protection. It applies to occupational, medical, public, emergency and existing exposure.

It covers in particular import, export, transit, manufacture, sale, possession, use, transport and storage of sources of ionizing radiation.

Operators and exposed personnel

The operator protects exposed personnel under the radiation protection programme approved by the national nuclear safety and security authority. Personnel assigned to a controlled zone receive particular medical surveillance.

• Effective dose: 20 mSv per year on average over five consecutive years, not exceeding 50 mSv in one year
• If limits are exceeded, an immediate declaration goes to the national nuclear safety and security authority
• Results of measurements and medical examinations are kept for no less than thirty years after exposure ends
• The operator keeps an inventory register for each store of radioactive sources and materials

Public and imported goods

For members of the public, the limit is an effective dose of 1 mSv in one year. Isotopic analyses of goods under control are carried out by structures, bodies or laboratories approved by the authority.

Removal of imported goods depends on the isotopic analysis results. Importers require from their suppliers, for each cargo, an isotopic analysis certificate.