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Curie-ating Safety: Honoring Curie, Protecting the Future
Curie-ating Safety is site dedicated to providing a collaborative and comprehensive online resource for health physicists worldwide. By curating and sharing knowledge, best practices, and resources, we aim to empower professionals to excel in radiation safety, promote the legacy of Marie Curie, and ensure the safe use of radiation for the benefit of humankind. Safety is not zero sum. It is best described in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt and Otto von Bismarck below.
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Any fool can learn from his own experience. The wise man learns from the experience of others." - Otto von Bismarck
Editorial Philosophy
Our Mission: The early vision for the site, while resources are limited, is to focus on the "how" over the "what." Many resources tell you what radiation safety is, but fail to explain how we actually do it. This is a living repository for the "institutional knowledge" of health physics. It is the practical, field-tested methods used to design, verify, and maintain radiation safety in complex environments.
The Scope: "How," Not "What" To keep our content high-value and unique, we are currently asking contributors to focus on application over theory:
- Skip the Definitions: We assume our users know what an Alpha particle is or how an Ion Chamber works. Avoid writing an article defining "Lead Shielding."
- Document the Process: Do write an article on how to stagger lead bricks to prevent streaming, how to use a 10-curie source to verify a bunker's integrity, or how you solved a "shine" issue in a legacy facility.
- Focus on Verification: If you are documenting a safety control, tell us how you tested it. What meter did you use? What was the geometry of the survey? What did the raw data look like?
- Share the "Gotchas": The most valuable information is often what didn't work. Documenting failed shielding designs or unexpected scatter patterns helps the next physicist avoid the same mistakes.
- In short: If a student can find it in a textbook, it probably doesn't belong here just yet. If a health physicist can only find it in their field notes or conference presentations, we want it!
Table of Contents
- Sources of Radiation
- Instrumentation and Measurement
- Operational Health Physics
- Standards and Regulatory Framework
- Scope of Practice
- Non-Ionizing Radiation
Resources
- HP Journal
- Health Physics Society
- Tools
- Educator Resources
- Training
- Health Physics Academic Programs