Calibration of the RLS HPGe spectral gamma ray logging system
Abstract
Gamma-ray spectral data have been recorded with the Radionuclide Logging System (RLS) high purity germanium (HPGe) system at (1) the American Petroleum Institute (API) spectral gamma-ray calibration center in Houston, Texas; (2) the US Department of Energy (DOE) spectral gamma-ray field calibration facility in Spokane, Washington; and (3) the DOE spectral gamma-ray primary calibration center in Grand Junction, Colorado. Analyses of the Grand Junction data yielded: calibration constants for the natural gamma-ray sources (potassium, uranium and thorium), energy-dependent borehole diameter corrections for the aid-filled borehole, energy-dependent borehole casing corrections for steel casing over a range of thicknesses from 0 to 79 cm (5/16 in.), a casing index function that varies with casing thickness and provides a method for verifying that the correct casing correction is applied, and an energy-dependent inverse function that is the basis for assessment of subsurface concentrations of man-made gamma-ray emitters such as cesium-137 and cobalt-60.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 5832160
- Report Number(s):
- WHC-EP-0464
ON: DE92006494
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-87RL10930
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; 58 GEOSCIENCES; BOREHOLES; GAMMA LOGGING; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; CALIBRATION; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; WELL CASINGS; CAVITIES; ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOACTIVITY LOGGING; SPECTROMETERS; WELL LOGGING; 440400* - Well Logging Instrumentation; 052000 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Management; 580000 - Geosciences
Citation Formats
Koizumi, C J, Brodeur, J R, Ulbricht, W H, and Price, R K. Calibration of the RLS HPGe spectral gamma ray logging system. United States: N. p., 1991.
Web.
Koizumi, C J, Brodeur, J R, Ulbricht, W H, & Price, R K. Calibration of the RLS HPGe spectral gamma ray logging system. United States.
Koizumi, C J, Brodeur, J R, Ulbricht, W H, and Price, R K. 1991.
"Calibration of the RLS HPGe spectral gamma ray logging system". United States.
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title = {Calibration of the RLS HPGe spectral gamma ray logging system},
author = {Koizumi, C J and Brodeur, J R and Ulbricht, W H and Price, R K},
abstractNote = {Gamma-ray spectral data have been recorded with the Radionuclide Logging System (RLS) high purity germanium (HPGe) system at (1) the American Petroleum Institute (API) spectral gamma-ray calibration center in Houston, Texas; (2) the US Department of Energy (DOE) spectral gamma-ray field calibration facility in Spokane, Washington; and (3) the DOE spectral gamma-ray primary calibration center in Grand Junction, Colorado. Analyses of the Grand Junction data yielded: calibration constants for the natural gamma-ray sources (potassium, uranium and thorium), energy-dependent borehole diameter corrections for the aid-filled borehole, energy-dependent borehole casing corrections for steel casing over a range of thicknesses from 0 to 79 cm (5/16 in.), a casing index function that varies with casing thickness and provides a method for verifying that the correct casing correction is applied, and an energy-dependent inverse function that is the basis for assessment of subsurface concentrations of man-made gamma-ray emitters such as cesium-137 and cobalt-60.},
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year = {Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
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