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An underground laboratory for low-level gamma- and beta-spectrometry has been constructed at IAEA-MEL, Monaco, for the analysis of environmental radionuclides. The laboratory is situated at a depth of 35 m water equivalent underground and equipped with 4, large volume HPGe detectors placed in a common lead shield with anti-cosmic plastic scintillator shielding. There is also an anti-Compton gamma-spectrometer, comprized of an HPGe detector and NaI(Tl) shielding, and finally, a Quantulus liquid scintillation spectrometer. The performance of the gamma-spectrometers with different shielding settings/adjustments are discussed, as well as their possible applications in the analysis of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides in the marine environment.
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Povinec, P., Commanducci, JF. & Levy-Palomo, I. IAEA-MEL's underground counting laboratory (CAVE) for the analysis of radionuclides in the environment at very low-levels. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 263, 441–445 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-005-0074-5
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