Development of a scintillation flow-cell detection system for environmental restoration and waste management applications
Abstract
A flow-cell detection system was developed utilizing a coincidence circuit and tested with BaF{sub 2}, CaF{sub 2}:Eu and scintillating glass. The coincidence detection system reduced the background from {approximately}200 cps to {approximately}0.5 cps. The detection efficiencies for these cells ranged from 0.38 to 0.66 for {sup 45}Ca beta particles (E{sub max} = 0.257 MeV) and from 0.45 to 0.52 for {sup 233}U alpha particles (E{sub {alpha}} = 4.8 MeV). The minimum detectable activity was calculated for a 30 s count time and determined to be in the range of 1-2 Bq.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation, Clemson, SC (United States). Strom Thurman Inst.
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 230383
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/29115-96/C0691; CONF-960212-89
ON: DE96010019; TRN: 96:003024
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC21-92MC29115
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste management `96: HLW, LLW, mixed wastes and environmental restoration - working towards a cleaner environment, Tucson, AZ (United States), 25-29 Feb 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 44 INSTRUMENTATION, INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS; 40 CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS; ALPHA DETECTION; BETA DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; DESIGN; ALPHA PARTICLES; BETA PARTICLES; WASTE MANAGEMENT; GLASS SCINTILLATORS; BARIUM FLUORIDES; CALCIUM FLUORIDES; EUROPIUM; CALCIUM 45; URANIUM 233; COINCIDENCE METHODS; LIQUID COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTION
Citation Formats
DeVol, T A, Branton, S D, and Fjeld, R A. Development of a scintillation flow-cell detection system for environmental restoration and waste management applications. United States: N. p., 1996.
Web.
DeVol, T A, Branton, S D, & Fjeld, R A. Development of a scintillation flow-cell detection system for environmental restoration and waste management applications. United States.
DeVol, T A, Branton, S D, and Fjeld, R A. 1996.
"Development of a scintillation flow-cell detection system for environmental restoration and waste management applications". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/230383.
@article{osti_230383,
title = {Development of a scintillation flow-cell detection system for environmental restoration and waste management applications},
author = {DeVol, T A and Branton, S D and Fjeld, R A},
abstractNote = {A flow-cell detection system was developed utilizing a coincidence circuit and tested with BaF{sub 2}, CaF{sub 2}:Eu and scintillating glass. The coincidence detection system reduced the background from {approximately}200 cps to {approximately}0.5 cps. The detection efficiencies for these cells ranged from 0.38 to 0.66 for {sup 45}Ca beta particles (E{sub max} = 0.257 MeV) and from 0.45 to 0.52 for {sup 233}U alpha particles (E{sub {alpha}} = 4.8 MeV). The minimum detectable activity was calculated for a 30 s count time and determined to be in the range of 1-2 Bq.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
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