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It is significant to develop the in situ radioactivity measuring system in the marine environment for the autonomous and continuous monitoring in the long term and even for the pollution early warning. The design of a set of a marine radioactivity measuring system was presented in the paper using the underwater spectrometer as the sensor. A data acquisition and control device was developed to collect and process the gamma ray spectra measured by the sensor, and also to be responsible for the monitoring system control and power supply. The bulk monitoring data were transferred to the server in the laboratory through the Beidou satellite. The gamma ray spectra measured and the analysis results of the radioactivity in the seawater were provided for the users. This research work and measured data have great importance to the more particular knowledge of the radioactivity in the marine environment and to the development of the marine radioactive monitoring and pollution early warning.
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We acknowledge the financial support from International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (No. 2013DFR90220), Key Research Program of Shandong Province (No.2015GSF115001), Science and Technology Plan of Shandong Province (No. 2014GGX103003). The discussion with Dr. Christos Tsabaris in Hellenic Centre for Marine Research is greatly appreciated. The authors are sincerely grateful for the comments and suggestions of the anonymous reviewers.
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Zhang, Y., Wu, B., Zhang, Y., Ren, G., Liu, D., Cao, L. (2016). Design and Development of an In Situ Radioactivity Measuring System in the Marine Environment. In: Huang, B., Yao, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Automatic Control. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48768-6_105
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