An evaluation of the response of a scintillation detector for estimating the radionuclide composition of a contaminated cloud
Language English Country Great Britain, England Media print-electronic
Document type Evaluation Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PubMed
19897376
DOI
10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.017
PII: S0969-8043(09)00634-4
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- MeSH
- Equipment Failure Analysis MeSH
- Equipment Design MeSH
- Air Pollutants, Radioactive analysis MeSH
- Radioactive Fallout analysis MeSH
- Radioisotopes analysis MeSH
- Reproducibility of Results MeSH
- Scintillation Counting instrumentation MeSH
- Sensitivity and Specificity MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Evaluation Study MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Air Pollutants, Radioactive MeSH
- Radioactive Fallout MeSH
- Radioisotopes MeSH
We have made Monte Carlo calculations of the scintillation spectrometer response for the photon field from a cloud of contaminated air after selected scenarios of a nuclear power plant accident. Calculations (using MCNP5 code-X-5 Monte Carlo Team, 2005) were performed for 36 main energy lines of the expected radionuclides. The evaluated spectra enable us to simulate real composite spectra and their evolution in time, and to assess the applicability of a specific spectrometry system for a semi-qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis of the composition of the cloud.
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