Director & Deputy Director of the Department

Director
Shu-Jun Chang

The Department of Radiation Protection ensures radiation safety for personnel and the environment based on professional safety regulatory control and technological inspection, as well as promoting medical exposure quality assurance to ensure the quality of medical exposure.
Controlled premises include nuclear facilities, medical institutions, academic institutions, industrial organizations, and agricultural organizations, where radioactive material and equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation are used.

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Deputy Director
Chin-Hsieh Tsai
(2172)

Deputy Director
Chin-Hsieh Tsai

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Senior Technical Specialist
Ya-Chuan Hsu
(2175)

Senior Technical Specialist
Ya-Chuan Hsu

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Section
Chief Wu
(2188)

Standards Section
(Chief Wu/2188)

• Studying and revising domestic ionizing radiation protection regulations.
• Implementing task plans related to radiation protection.
• Establishing and maintaining the operational radiation protection cloud service system and the import/export licensing system.
• Offering tests to certify domestic radiation protection personnel’s qualifications and operation personnel’s licenses.
• Designing agendas for the “Advisory Committee on Ionizing Radiation Safety”.

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Health Physics Section
(Chief Jhu/2199)

• Reviewing radiation protection management of nuclear power plants and nuclear research reactor facilities.
• Managing and maintaining the national database on occupational radiation exposures.
• Recognizing and managing personal external radiation dose evaluation institutions.
• Handling radiation protection personnel’s approval applications and issuing related certificates.
• Reviewing accumulated points for continuing education on radiation protection.
• Recognizing and managing radiation protection training providers.

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Radiation Safety Assessment Section
(Chief Nieh /2209)

• Implementing regulated items of radiation safety for the radiographic testing industry.
• Giving approval to steel providers for executing radiation detection, establishing steel radiation detection workers’ qualification specifications, and building a reporting mechanism for radiation abnormalities of the steel industry to equip steel providers with emergency response ability.
• Implementing building radiation detection and establishing an information inquiry system.
• Recognizing and managing radiation protection and detection operators.
• Establishing a management mechanism for radiation protection of negative ion powder and related products.

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Medical Applications Section
(Chief Huang /2193)

• Reviewing, regulating and inspecting medical equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation, medical sealed/unsealed radioactive material, and medical high-intensity radiation facilities.
• Promoting medical exposure quality assurance regarding medical radioactive material and equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation.
• Reviewing and issuing medical radiation safety certificates, medical high-intensity radiation facility certificates, and production facility operator certificates.
• Recognizing, managing, supervising and assessing vendors of medical equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation or radioactive material.
• Recognizing credits earned from taking training courses on radiation protection offered by medical institutions, as well as supervising and assessing such recognition.
• Handling medical radiation source operators’ applications for approval of radiation safety certificates, and issuing certificates.

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Non-Medical Applications Section
(Chief Guo/2179)

• Implementing regulatory control of the safety of radiation sources for companies, academic institutions, government agencies, military institutions, nuclear pharmacies, and animal hospitals.
• Implementing regulatory control of radiation safety for high-intensity radiation facilities, such as irradiation plants and synchrotron radiation accelerators, and radiation source production and manufacturing facilities, as well as reviewing and issuing operators’ certificates.
• Implementing the regulatory control of whole plants of ion implanters and static eliminators used in the industry.
• Recognizing, managing, supervising and assessing vendors of non-medical equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation or radioactive material.
• Recognizing credits earned from taking training courses on radiation protection offered by companies, academic institutions, government agencies and military institutions, as well as supervising and assessing such recognition.
• Handling non-medical radiation source operators’ applications for approval of radiation safety certificates, and issuing certificates.

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Environment section
(Chief Wang/2174)

• Supervising the national environmental radiation detection and assessment.
• Assessing, managing and supervising the environmental radiation safety.
• Recognizing and managing personal external radiation dose evaluation institutions.
• Managing and maintaining the national database on occupational radiation exposures.

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