Gamma dose rates from a spent UO2 fuel Assembly: Calculations vs measurements

2022 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 108755
Author(s):  
Roberto Pergreffi ◽  
Federico Rocchi ◽  
Antonio Guglielmelli ◽  
Paolo Ferrari
2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. S301-S307 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. Wood ◽  
D. Copplestone

2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dragović ◽  
Lj. Janković ◽  
A. Onjia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (30) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Asia H. Al-Mashhadani

The gamma dose rates and specific activity of 137Cs, 60Co and 40K insamples of soil taken from places near the landfill radiation at Al-Tuwaitha site were measured using a portable NaI(Tl) detector. Theresults of gamma dose rates in samples were ranged from 52.6nGy.h-1 to 131nGy.h-1. Then the specific activity of 137Cs, 60Co and40K in soil were determined using high pure germanium (HPGe)detector. The specific activities were varied from 1.9 to 115500 Bq.kg-1 for 137Cs, from 6.37 to 616.5 Bq. kg-1 for 60Co, and from 3 to839.5 Bq. kg-1 for 40K. The corresponding health risk for the annualeffective dose equivalent varied from 1.85×10-14 to 15.7mSv/y. Theresults were compared with various international recommendations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia M. Ozain-Porterie ◽  
Tommy Quach ◽  
Mark C. Harvey

2019 ◽  
Vol 184 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 290-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darwish Al-Azmi ◽  
Sudeep Kumara ◽  
M P Mohan ◽  
N Karunakara

Abstract Elevated levels of natural background radiation due to scattered patches of monazite sand around the beaches of Mangalore, India, have been reported earlier. A comparative study of gamma dose rates was performed in both normal background and high natural background radiation areas around Mangalore using different types of portable gamma dosimeters. In addition to this, gamma-ray energy spectra were acquired, in situ, using a NaI(Tl) based portable gamma spectrometer. Soil and sand samples were collected for laboratory analysis with HPGe detectors. Measurements were carried out during the years 2016–18 revealed that in majority of the locations the gamma dose rates were similar to the normal background regions, whereas, in certain locations the dose rates were higher with values up to 530 nSv/h.


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