Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Application of a low-level anti-coincidence gamma-spectrometer for environmental radioactivity measurement

  • Published:
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Sensitive environmental radioactivity measurement using direct γ-spectroscopy needs to be carried out under particular low-level conditions as the quantity to be determined generally is very close to the natural background. Passive shielding of the detectors in addition to electronic suppression of Compton background resulting from scattering of high energy γ-rays in the gemanium detector seems to be the most promising approach to obtain statistically well defined peaks within reasonable measurement time. Results obtained with a heavily shielded anti-coincidence spectrometer installed at the Research Center Jülich, ideally suited for the measurement of low-level environmental radioactivity in various materials are described.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. J. A. Cooper, L. A. Rancttelli, R. W. Perkins, J. Radioanal. Chem., 6 (1970) 147.

    Google Scholar 

  2. P. L. Phelps, K. O. Hamby, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, UCRL-73521, 1971.

  3. M. Michijima, H. Miyake, J. Nucl. Sci. Technol., 9 (1972) 445.

    Google Scholar 

  4. J. M. R. Hutchinson, W. B. Mann, R. W. Perkins, Nucl. Instr. Meth., 112 (1973) 305.

    Google Scholar 

  5. N. A. Wogman, Intem. Symp. Meth. Low-level Counting Spectr., 1981, Berlin, Germany, IAEA-SM-252/25.

  6. W. G. Winn, W. W. Bowman, A. L. Boni, Sci. Total. Environ., 69 (1988) 107.

    Google Scholar 

  7. R. M. Lieder, H. Jäger, A. Neskasis, T. Venkova, C. Michel, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res., 220 (1984) 363.

    Google Scholar 

  8. M. Moszynski, J. H. Bjerregard, J. J. Gaardhøje, B. Herskind, P. Knudsen, G. Sletten, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res., A280 (1989) 73.

    Google Scholar 

  9. V. J. Orphan, N. C. Rasmussen, Nucl. Instr. Meth., 48 (1967) 282.

    Google Scholar 

  10. T. Lindblad, Nucl. Instr. Meth., 154 (1978) 53.

    Google Scholar 

  11. C. Yonezawa, A. K. H. Wood, M. Hoshi, Y. Ito, E. Tachikawa, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res., A329 (1993) 207.

    Google Scholar 

  12. S. Landsberger, S. Peshev, J. Radional. Nucl. Chem., 202 (1996) 201.

    Google Scholar 

  13. M. Petra, G. Swift, S. Landsberger, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res., A299 (1990) 85.

    Google Scholar 

  14. M. Rossbach, M. Stoeppler, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 113 (1987) 217.

    Google Scholar 

  15. H. A. Das, J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 99 (1986) 61.

    Google Scholar 

  16. M. Rossbach, R. Zeisler, J. R. W. Woittiez, Biol. Trace Elem. Res., 26 (1990) 63.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  17. K. Debertin, R. G. Helmer, Gamma Spectrometry and X-Ray Spectrometry with Semiconductor Detectors, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1988, p. 53.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Yogyakarta Nuclear Research Center, Jln. Babarsari, P.O. Box 1008, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    S. Sudarti

  2. Central Department of Analytical Chemistry, ZCH, Research Center Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    H. Petri

  3. Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry, ICG-7, Research Center Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany

    M. Rossbach

Authors
  1. S. Sudarti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. H. Petri
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. M. Rossbach
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

IAEA trainee at the Research Center Jülich under Contact INS/93009P from April 15 till July 15 1994.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Sudarti, S., Petri, H. & Rossbach, M. Application of a low-level anti-coincidence gamma-spectrometer for environmental radioactivity measurement. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 223, 177–185 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02223381

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02223381

Keywords

Search

Navigation