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Rapid determination of the absolute activities of alpha-emitting nuclides in plane disk sources

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A simple method is described for rapidly determining the activity of alpha-emitting radionuclides in a plane source which is based on measuring the counting rate in a detector under fixed geometry conditions for two positions of the source.

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  1. Yu. S. Egorov
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  2. V. P. Chechev
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Translated from Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, No. 2, pp. 53–55, February, 1999.

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Egorov, Y.S., Chechev, V.P. Rapid determination of the absolute activities of alpha-emitting nuclides in plane disk sources. Meas Tech 42, 176–180 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02504255

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