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What's New
20 May 2008 - The "About the NRL" page has been updated to include:
a link to the
NRL Strategic Plan;
a link to
quality management initiatives at NRL; and
updating of the links to
other organisations.
13 May 2008 – Environmental radioactivity annual report (PDF - 195 kB) published.
New clauses have been added to NRL C3 relating to the use of medical physicists with suitable expertise in nuclear medicine and medical therapy.
New clauses have been added to NRL C7 relating to cone beam volumetric tomographic x-ray equipment and purpose-designed hand-held intra-oral x-ray equipment.
NRL Matters No. 15 regarding medical specialists and the use of x-ray image intensifiers has been revised.
NRL Matters No 19 regarding licence application process for medical practitioners has replaced NRL Matters Nos 2, 6, 7, 11 and 12.
26 November 2007 –The NRL newsletter "The Source" has been discontinued.
6 November 2007 – An online regulatory service has been added to the Regulatory menu where licensee searches can be carried out.
5 October 2007 – NRL Matters No 17 regarding storage, sale and disposal of irradiating apparatus has replaced NRL Matters Nos 8 and 13.
21 September 2007 – Cores of Knowledge (non-medical purposes) were issued:
Installation and servicing (general medical x-ray
equipment – including CT, fluoroscopy and mammography equipment)
Installation and servicing (medical linear accelerators)
Installation and serving (veterinary x-ray equipment)
Installation and servicing (industrial gauging)
Use of radioactive materials for veterinary therapy
Use of radioactive materials for industrial gauging
11 September 2007 - Core of knowledge (medical purposes) was issued:
Use of irradiating apparatus for medical imaging (cardiology, urology, orthopaedic and vascular procedures)
4 September 2007 – An NRL publications menu has been added. Note that NRL reports can now be downloaded as PDF files.
8 August 2007 – NRL Report 2006/1 (PDF - 1021 kB), Nuclear medicine practice and patient doses in New Zealand in 2005, has been published.
3 August 2007 – NRL Matters No. 18 regarding the import, export and sale of radioactive material has been revised.
25 June 2007 – a comprehensive review by the World Health Organisation of research on ELF fields and Fact Sheet of the findings released.
30 May 2007 – Environmental radioactivity annual report (PDF - 227 kB) published.
29 May 2007 - Exposures to radiofrequency fields from WiFi networks are explained.
27 February 2007 - The Swedish Radiation Protection Authority's (SSI) independent expert group on EMF published its fourth report covering both ELF and RF fields. Recent developments on EMF and health issues are published in Energy Network Association's EMF Update (PDF - 210 kB).
23 February 2007 - The Health Council of the Netherlands released its 2006 annual update on Electromagnetic Fields reviewing UMTS and DECT phone systems.
4 December 2006 – information regarding polonium-210 posted in response to recent events in the United Kingdom.
1 December 2006 - The Source: Issue 21 December 2006 (PDF - 351 kB) published including articles on Chernobyl, transport of radioactive material and new test-ban monitoring station installed in Mauritania.
7 July 2006 – information pamphlet (PDF 1157 kB) issued for drivers and handlers involved in the road transport of radioactive material.
7 July 2006 – IS 27 (PDF 32 kB) issued setting out NRL requirements for dose/risk assessments as part of Ethics Committee approval process.
28 February 2006 - NRL Matters No. 18 (PDF 41 kB) published setting out NRL requirements for import, export and sale of radioactive material.
31 October 2005 - NRL Report 2005/1 (PDF file 1180 kB) published setting out the CTBT verification significance of particulate radionuclides detected by the International Monitoring System.