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Plasma accelerators made huge advancements in recent years and with increasing repetition rate and average power start to become feasible for use in applications. This increase in power also requires more thinking in terms of radiation safety, especially since both photon and electron beams produced in plasma accelerators have very unique features compared to other beam sources. Here we present our findings of the radiation fields from the different plasma accelerators we have at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and compare those to the radiation safety of our conventional accelerators on campus. Additionally, we present our radiation detector development programme and highlight several devices we have developed in recent years which are particularly well-suited for dose monitoring and characterizing the distinct radiation environments of advanced accelerator technologies.
