Current Laboratory Instrumental Methods for Detecting Environmental Radioactivity

The composite technologies required to provide data on environmental radioactivity encompass the following specialties: · Radiochemistry · Radiation Physics · Radiation detectors · Computer systems and programming · Quality Control/Quality Assurance · Regulations · A black-box understanding of elect...

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Published inIEEE transactions on nuclear science Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 1209 - 1215
Main Authors Melgard, R., Rodgers, D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.1982
Subjects
Atomic measurements
Electrons
Gamma ray detection
Gamma ray detectors
Instruments
Isotopes
Laboratories
Physics
Quality control
Radiation detectors
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ISSN0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI10.1109/TNS.1982.4336341

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Summary:The composite technologies required to provide data on environmental radioactivity encompass the following specialties: · Radiochemistry · Radiation Physics · Radiation detectors · Computer systems and programming · Quality Control/Quality Assurance · Regulations · A black-box understanding of electronics sufficient to package the technologies into a useful system. This paper concentrates on "Laboratory Instrumental Methods" and touches on other subjects only insofar as they are applied directly to this subject. As a treatise on instrumental methods the emphasis is on a practical application of available technologies in a modern analytical laboratory. Radiation physics is mentioned from the reference frame of a laboratory analyst as a prelude to the specific topics of instrumentation, calibration, sensitivity, quality control and data processing.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.1982.4336341