The radioactive installations (IRA-1392 on the Sant Joan campus and IRA-2882 on the Elche campus) are intended for the use of the research staff of this university, being extended to people outside the institution under the conditions provided by SATDI.

The radioactive installations, which report to the Office of the Vice Rectorate for Research, have technical personnel (supervisors and operators) responsible for the safety, maintenance, coordination and control of their use. The technical staff will also be in charge of ensuring compliance with the rules of use, as well as solving, in the first instance, any type of conflict that may arise in their interpretation, requiring, if necessary, the competition of the Vice Rectorate for Research or the person to whom he delegates.

The users of the installations have access to the laboratories where the radioactive measurement equipment is located, with access to the rooms for the custody of radioactive material (as a source or as waste) being restricted to the staff of the radiactive installations.

Users will be able to use the radiation measurement equipment as well as the radiation protection devices of the installations in the terms specified in these regulations. Its loan and use will be carried out in strict order of application. At the end of its use, all the material that has left the installations must be returned to it in the shortest amount of time. The use of particle counters is associated to record in the control books of each device the data requested in them. It is prohibited to vary the initial conditions of the particle counters.

Eating, drinking or smoking is prohibited in controlled areas of radioactive installations. Likewise, it is prohibited to carry out any activity that may cause detriment to the safety of people or contamination of the environment.

Users will collect and place, in the containers located for the purposes of the installations, the radioactive waste generated by the use of radioactive sources.

Professionally exposed personnel and those who due to their research activity may be exposed to ionizing radiation must maintain a personal dosimetric record managed by the technicians of the installations. This includes, without exception, users of radioactive installations.

It will be the Vice Rectorate for Research, or the person designated by him, who, in accordance with current legal regulations, will authorize new users to use radioactive material and radiation measurement equipment and radiation protection equipment, requesting and checking in your case the necessary qualification.

In order to guarantee the legally established safety limits for radioactive installations, only radioactive material that has been acquired through its technical personnel will be allowed to enter it.

Once the radioactive material has been acquired, it will be guarded by the staff of the unit in the source room. For this purpose, this room has refrigerators and freezers that provide the space and the appropriate environment for the maintenance of radioactive compounds. Radioactive material will always be freely available to users, being delivered by the unit’s staff at their request.

The radioactive material will be handled in the rooms of the installations equipped for it. If for any reason the radioactive material should leave the unit, it will be its supervisor who determines in what quantity and under what conditions, in accordance with current legal regulations.

Outside the hours of the staff of the unit, access to the permitted rooms of the same, will be verified by requesting the entrance keys at the concierge of the building where they will be deposited. This will involve users registering their name and the time keys are collected and returned.

The responsibility derived from negligence or misuse of radioactive equipment or material will rest with the user and, in the case of students (masters, doctoral students, scholarship holders in general), the director of the group or the research project. Any fault in this regard will be brought to the attention of the Vice Rectorate for Research, who will order the appropriate measures. In any case, the head of the unit, in the event of an anomaly in compliance with these regulations, may temporarily withdraw the privileges of using the unit for radioactive isotopes from the user or users involved in said anomaly.