by Radiation Safety Institute of Canada | Feb 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Use of X-Rays in the modern world is nearly ubiquitous. We come across X-Ray emitting devices all the time. X-Ray machines are used at airports for scanning baggage. It is not unusual to come across an x-ray security point checking personal items at the entrance of...
by Radiation Safety Institute of Canada | Dec 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Overcoming Atomic Anxiety in the Land of the Rising Sun Author: MATT COTÉ // Images: REUBEN KRABBE Shared on the RSIC website with the permission of the author IN 1942, UNDERNEATH STAGG FIELD at the University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi fired up the world’s...
by Radiation Safety Institute of Canada | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
Today we celebrate Marie Curie, a pioneer nuclear physicist. Her ground-breaking work on radioactivity revolutionised medicine. It brought her not one, but two Nobel Prizes! In addition, she was the first female recipient of the Nobel Prize. She made possible the...
by Tara Hargreaves | Sep 13, 2018
Credits 11 CAMPEP Credits Download 2019 Radiation Therapy Shielding Design Brochure This two-day Certificate Program introduces radiation therapy shielding design principles and methods that will equip medical physicists with knowledge necessary to prepare...
by Radiation Safety Institute of Canada | Sep 4, 2018 | News and Events
Radiation Safety Officer Refresher Certificate Course (RSO-2) | A two day training is designed for RSO-1 graduates to reinforce and revive the information learned in the RSO-1 course. If it has been a while since you took your last RSO course, you owe it to your...
