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The basic characteristics of the changes occuring in the radiation conditions in an experimental facility for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel during decontamination of the facility after reprocessing irradiated uranium and uranium–plutonium BOR-60 reactor fuel and plutonium tetrafluoride into dioxide by the pyroelectrochemical method are examined. An expression is obtained experimentally for calculating the decrease in the power of photon radiation from contaminated surfaces as a function of the number of decontamination cycles. It is shown that for one-time processing of the surfaces of stainless steel equipment by the two-bath method the decontamination coefficient varies over the range 2.5–25 for α emitters and 5–30 for β and β, γ emitters.
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Serebryakov, V.V., Kirillovich, A.P., Kurunov, Y.I. et al. Radiation Conditions during Decontamination of an Experimental Facility for Reprocessing Nuclear Fuel. Atomic Energy 95, 845–851 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ATEN.0000018997.57854.a3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:ATEN.0000018997.57854.a3