A NEW DESIGN FOR THE STORAGE AREA OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS AT THE BUCHAREST 9 MV TANDEM ACCELERATOR LABORATORY

The manipulation of encapsulated, low activity radiation sources and waste is a procedure activity when dealing with a radiological installation as a Tandem accelerator and experimental setups. Usually, in this case the specific activities of the handled materials are known, therefore can be accurately estimated the exposure risk from such radiation sources. In order to lower the probability of unwanted irradiations, the radioactive materials manipulation is limited to a certain period of time, after that being deposited in special built storages. In this paper are presented results of measurements and numerical simulations used for designing a new storage for radioactive materials at the Bucharest. 9 MV Tandem accelerator laboratory.