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SOURCE OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE
2. Industrial applications (production and use of
radioactive sources)
Sealed Sources
➢ Thickness, level and density gauges
➢ Industrial radiography, sterilization
facilities
➢ Large number of potentially hazardous
sources
Unsealed Sources
➢ Tracers, monitoring
➢ Mostly short-lived radionuclides
Example of radionuclides are Co-60, Cs-137,
Ir-192, Am-241, Am-Be & etc.
