The on-site monitoring technique for carborne radioactive waste container
Long Bin; Jia Mingyan; Feng Tiancheng; Ma Huaicheng; Wu Rui; Su Chuanying; Tian Yanjie; Liu Jun
Proceedings of 16. national conference on nuclear electronics and nuclear detection technology (part 2)2012
Proceedings of 16. national conference on nuclear electronics and nuclear detection technology (part 2)2012
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[en] This paper presents an on-site monitoring technique for carborne radioactive waste container, including theoretic model and efficiency calibration method. Three portable HPGe detectors are used to scan three surfaces of the carborne waste container. And then the weighted average is performed to get the average specific activity of the interested nuclides. The experiments which turned out the necessity of scanning three surfaces successfully were completed with uniform and non-uniform volumetric sources on the ideal condition. When the measurement time is 1000 s, the MDAs of 241Am, 137Cs, 60Co and 152Eu are 170 Bq/kg, 1 Bq/kg , 1 Bq/kg and 5 Bq/kg, respectively. And the uncertainty is less than 40%(1σ) for 241Am, 35%(1σ) for 137Cs,60Co and 152Eu. Compared with the other techniques, transmission source device and collimators are not required, and the assay time is shorter. However, the limitations of this technique are that measurement results are not radionuclide activity for every voxel but specific activity for the whole container, and that it is difficult to measure for the low energy gamma emitters (e.g. 241Am) in the waste with high density matrix based on gamma-assay method. (authors)
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Nuclear Electronics and Nuclear Detection Technology Branch Society of China Institute of Electronics, Beijing (China); Nuclear Electronics and Nuclear Detection Technology Branch Society of Chinese Nuclear Society, Beijing (China); 299 p; Aug 2012; p. 401-408; 16. national conference on nuclear electronics and nuclear detection technology; Mianyang (China); 15-16 Aug 2012; 13 figs., 12 tabs., 8 refs.
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ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, AMERICIUM ISOTOPES, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, COBALT ISOTOPES, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EUROPIUM ISOTOPES, GE SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS, HEAVY NUCLEI, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LAND TRANSPORT, MATERIALS, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, MONITORING, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOISOTOPES, RARE EARTH NUCLEI, SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES, TRANSPORT, VEHICLES, WASTES, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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