Novel spectrometers for environmental dose rate monitoring
| Autor: | R. Dabrowski, S. Neumaier, B. Behnke, Annette Röttger, P. Kessler, H. Dombrowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Photomultiplier
Adverse weather Spectrometer Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine Scintillator Radiation Radiation Dosage Pollution 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging law.invention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Radiation Protection law Radiation Monitoring 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Environmental Chemistry Environmental science Radiation monitoring Air Pollution Radioactive Dose rate Waste Management and Disposal Geiger–Müller tube Remote sensing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of environmental radioactivity. 187 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1700 |
| Popis: | A new generation of dosemeters, based on the scintillators LaBr3, CeBr3 and SrI2, read out with conventional photomultipliers, to be used in the field of environmental gamma-radiation monitoring, was investigated. The main features of these new instruments and especially their outdoor performance, studied by long-term investigations under real weather conditions, are presented. The systems were tested at the reference sites for environmental radiation of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. The measurements are compared with that of well characterized classical dose rate reference instruments to demonstrate the suitability of new spectrometers for environmental dose rate monitoring even in adverse weather conditions. Their potential to replace the (mainly Geiger Muller based) dose rate meters operated in about 5000 European early waning network stations as well as in environmental radiation monitoring in general is shown. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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