BARC/PUB/2012/0829

 
 

Estimation of Thoron concentration using scintillation cell

 
     
 
Author(s)

Sumesh, C. G.; Kumar, A. V.; Nair, R. N.; Tripathi, R. M.; Puranik, V. D.
(EAD)

Source

Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2012. Vol. 150 (4): pp. 536-540

ABSTRACT

Two counting techniques are proposed in this paper to estimate thoron (220Rn) concentration using a Lucas scintillation cell. The alpha activity build-up inside the cell is calculated theoretically by using Bateman equations. The first method is having a minimum detection limit of 325 Bq m-3 and can be used for thoron measurement in thorium-processing plants. In the second method, thoron concentration is calculated using the alpha counts from thoron progenies and is a reference to the first method. The results obtained by these techniques compare well with the double filter method.

 
 
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