ASNT IRRSP TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Poor equipment design, lack of understanding, lack of and poor safety practices -
✔✔In the early years of radiography, what caused personnel to be over exposed?
✔✔late of 1898 - ✔✔in what year did Marie Curie discover radium?
✔✔Marie and Pierre Curie - ✔✔Who coined the term radioactivity
✔✔3 in. - ✔✔In the early years of radiography, from 1920-1930, the maximum that
could be inspected via X-radiation was ______ steel
✔✔Improper surveys, the source being left in an uncontrolled state, the source not
being locked once retracted to the shielded position - ✔✔the predominant cause of
overexposure is ________
✔✔The radiographer - ✔✔Who is responsible to adhere to regulations, licenses, and
company policies
✔✔Ernest Rutherford - ✔✔Alpha particles were discovered by ..
✔✔Massachusetts general - ✔✔the first medical X-ray was conducted at
✔✔true - ✔✔Regulations from one state to the rest are basically the same for
radioactive materials
✔✔their programs radiation safety officer (RSO) - ✔✔The first person to seek guidance
from is
✔✔William Roentgen - ✔✔The origins of radiography were principled by
, ✔✔cancer, genetic defects carried into further generations, death - ✔✔overexposure
can result in
✔✔false - ✔✔all radiation exposures are all equally serious and deadly
✔✔skin, internal organs, muscles - ✔✔ionizing radiation passes through the entire
body; as such, damage can occur to the
✔✔blood changes, nausea, fatigue - ✔✔prompt effects of radiation exposure to acute
doses include
✔✔only one radiographer is known to have died in the world - ✔✔Industrial
radiography, being one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, has killed
✔✔As Low As Reasonably Achievable - ✔✔ALARA
✔✔5 rem per year - ✔✔The Maximum Permissible Dose (MPD) for each member of the
dental staff must not exceed.
✔✔10% that of an adult, 0.5 rem, 5 mSv - ✔✔The maximum occupational dose for a
minor
✔✔more damaging than the gamma ray - ✔✔The alpha particle
✔✔20 - ✔✔the alpha particle has a quality factor of....
✔✔false - ✔✔radiation can be detected by human senses
✔✔Geiger-Muller tube - ✔✔which of the two types of survey meters are most
appropriate for industrial radiography
✔✔2 mR/h through 1 R/h - ✔✔the survey meter must be able to measure a range of
✔✔0 at 25 feet - ✔✔After a source has been returned to the shielded position a survey
meter should show
✔✔20% - ✔✔a survey meter most be calibrated on each scale to an accuracy of
✔✔dose received since the last time it was charged - ✔✔A dosimeter measures
✔✔500 mR/h - ✔✔a rate alarm meter, must sound a continuous audible alarm greater
than 80 dB at one foot
✔✔12 months - ✔✔dosimeters and rate alarms must be calibrated every
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Poor equipment design, lack of understanding, lack of and poor safety practices -
✔✔In the early years of radiography, what caused personnel to be over exposed?
✔✔late of 1898 - ✔✔in what year did Marie Curie discover radium?
✔✔Marie and Pierre Curie - ✔✔Who coined the term radioactivity
✔✔3 in. - ✔✔In the early years of radiography, from 1920-1930, the maximum that
could be inspected via X-radiation was ______ steel
✔✔Improper surveys, the source being left in an uncontrolled state, the source not
being locked once retracted to the shielded position - ✔✔the predominant cause of
overexposure is ________
✔✔The radiographer - ✔✔Who is responsible to adhere to regulations, licenses, and
company policies
✔✔Ernest Rutherford - ✔✔Alpha particles were discovered by ..
✔✔Massachusetts general - ✔✔the first medical X-ray was conducted at
✔✔true - ✔✔Regulations from one state to the rest are basically the same for
radioactive materials
✔✔their programs radiation safety officer (RSO) - ✔✔The first person to seek guidance
from is
✔✔William Roentgen - ✔✔The origins of radiography were principled by
, ✔✔cancer, genetic defects carried into further generations, death - ✔✔overexposure
can result in
✔✔false - ✔✔all radiation exposures are all equally serious and deadly
✔✔skin, internal organs, muscles - ✔✔ionizing radiation passes through the entire
body; as such, damage can occur to the
✔✔blood changes, nausea, fatigue - ✔✔prompt effects of radiation exposure to acute
doses include
✔✔only one radiographer is known to have died in the world - ✔✔Industrial
radiography, being one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, has killed
✔✔As Low As Reasonably Achievable - ✔✔ALARA
✔✔5 rem per year - ✔✔The Maximum Permissible Dose (MPD) for each member of the
dental staff must not exceed.
✔✔10% that of an adult, 0.5 rem, 5 mSv - ✔✔The maximum occupational dose for a
minor
✔✔more damaging than the gamma ray - ✔✔The alpha particle
✔✔20 - ✔✔the alpha particle has a quality factor of....
✔✔false - ✔✔radiation can be detected by human senses
✔✔Geiger-Muller tube - ✔✔which of the two types of survey meters are most
appropriate for industrial radiography
✔✔2 mR/h through 1 R/h - ✔✔the survey meter must be able to measure a range of
✔✔0 at 25 feet - ✔✔After a source has been returned to the shielded position a survey
meter should show
✔✔20% - ✔✔a survey meter most be calibrated on each scale to an accuracy of
✔✔dose received since the last time it was charged - ✔✔A dosimeter measures
✔✔500 mR/h - ✔✔a rate alarm meter, must sound a continuous audible alarm greater
than 80 dB at one foot
✔✔12 months - ✔✔dosimeters and rate alarms must be calibrated every
