The chapter on Radiation Protection includes sampling and measurement procedures for Radon in air as a major contributor to the radiation exposure of the population, especially indoors. It covers also effluent measurements for Tritium and Radiocarbon from nuclear facilities, procedures for NORM materials and liquid scintillation for contamination control in a radiochemical laboratory.
Measuring Procedures
Radiation Protection
- Introduction
- Measuring Procedures
- Introduction to Measuring Procedures
- Sample combustion with Hidex 600 OX Oxidizer
- Instrument Calibration Procedures
- Natural Radionuclides
- Aqueous Samples
- Gross Alpha Beta Survey in Drinking Water
- Radon by Extraction
- Radon by Gel Counting
- Ra-226 through Radon Emanation
- Radium by Derived Radium RAD Disk Method
- Simultaneous Determination of Ra-226/228 and Pb-210 Using Radium RAD Disk and TDCR
- Quick Method for Key Nuclides in Drinking Water
- Uranium Isotopes by Extractive Scintillation
- Tritium by Distillation
- Sea Water Samples
- Organic Samples
- Aqueous Samples
- Radionuclides from Nuclear Fission Activities
- Strontium by Strontium RAD Disk
- Sr-90 and Pb-210 by Extraction Chromatography
- Sr-90 and Pb-210 by Plastic Scintillator Using Microspheres
- Strontium in Milk
- Sr-89/90 by Cerenkov Counting
- Strontium Isotopes (Sr-89/Sr-90 and Sr-90/Y-90) by TDCR Cerenkov Counting
- Fe-55 by Extraction Chromatography
- Ni-63 by Extraction Chromatography
- Fe-55 and Ni-63 in Radioactive Waste
- Ca Isotopes in Biological Shield
- Fe-55 and Ca-41 in Decommissioning Activities by TDCR-LSC
- Sample Preparation for Pu-241 Analysis (BioRad)
- Pu-241 in Presence of Other Plutonium Isotopes (LS Alpha Spectrometry)
- Tc by RAD Disk and PSresins
- Multiple Radionuclide Analysis
- Radiation Protection
- Quality Assurance and Uncertainty Budget