Radiation Protection Bureau

The Radiation Protection Bureau is Canada's national centre of excellence for environmental and occupational radiation protection. The Bureau provides medical and technical advice to Canadians based on its research on the health effects of radionuclides. It coordinates Canada's preparedness for nuclear emergencies and leads the Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan in the event of a nuclear threat or disaster that could affect Canada. It also houses the Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network and Laboratory that measures levels of radioactivity throughout Canada.

Features:

• National Dose Registry - a centralized radiation dose record system, which contains the occupational radiation dose records of all monitored radiation workers in Canada.
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty - part of an International Monitoring System for detecting nuclear weapon tests.
• National Dosimetry Services - provides personal radiation monitoring to 100,000 Canadians using ionizing radiation in their work.
• National Calibration Reference Centre for Bioassay and In Vivo Monitoring (NCRC) - was established in 1982 within the Radiation Protection Bureau (RPB), Health Canada, to assist in improving workplace safety by providing high quality intercomparison programs for the measurement of internal radiation exposures of workers.
• The Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network (CRMN) - was initiated in 1959 to monitor environmental releases of radioactivity from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and accidental releases from nuclear facilities. vicinity of nuclear reactor locations.
• Radiological Impact Section- carries out assessments of situations where ionizing radiation may have an impact on the general public. Conduct research on the transport of radioactivity through environmental pathways, the uptake of radioactive substances by the human body and the health effects of ionizing radiation.
• Bioassay Laboratory - the Section of the NCRC that provides in vitro radiobioassay services and programs.
• Human Monitoring Laboratory (HML) - a world leader in In Vivo measurements research and integral part of the NCRC.
• Federal Provincial Territorial Radiation Protection Committee (FPTRPC) - an intergovernmental Committee established to support Federal, Provincial and Territorial radiation protection agencies in their respective mandates.

Division

• Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response Division