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Title: BOBCAT Personal Radiation Detector Field Test and Evaluation Campaign

Abstract

Following the success of the Anole test of portable detection system, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office organized a test and evaluation campaign for personal radiation detectors (PRDs), also known as “Pagers.” This test, “Bobcat,” was conducted from July 17 to August 8, 2006, at the Nevada Test Site. The Bobcat test was designed to evaluate the performance of PRDs under various operational scenarios, such as pedestrian surveying, mobile surveying, cargo container screening, and pedestrian chokepoint monitoring. Under these testing scenarios, many operational characteristics of the PRDs, such as gamma and neutron sensitivities, positive detection and false alarm rates, response delay times, minimum detectable activities, and source localization errors, were analyzed. This paper will present the design, execution, and methodologies used to test this equipment for the DHS.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec), Mercury, NV (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE - National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
926239
Report Number(s):
DOE/NV/25946-157
TRN: US0804233
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC52-06NA25946
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 48th Annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Material Management (INMM) July 8-12, 2007; Tucson, AZ
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; CARGO; CONTAINERS; DESIGN; DETECTION; EVALUATION; FIELD TESTS; MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; NEUTRONS; NEVADA TEST SITE; PERFORMANCE; RADIATION DETECTORS; SECURITY; TESTING

Citation Formats

Hodge, Chris. BOBCAT Personal Radiation Detector Field Test and Evaluation Campaign. United States: N. p., 2008. Web.
Hodge, Chris. BOBCAT Personal Radiation Detector Field Test and Evaluation Campaign. United States.
Hodge, Chris. 2008. "BOBCAT Personal Radiation Detector Field Test and Evaluation Campaign". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/926239.
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abstractNote = {Following the success of the Anole test of portable detection system, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office organized a test and evaluation campaign for personal radiation detectors (PRDs), also known as “Pagers.” This test, “Bobcat,” was conducted from July 17 to August 8, 2006, at the Nevada Test Site. The Bobcat test was designed to evaluate the performance of PRDs under various operational scenarios, such as pedestrian surveying, mobile surveying, cargo container screening, and pedestrian chokepoint monitoring. Under these testing scenarios, many operational characteristics of the PRDs, such as gamma and neutron sensitivities, positive detection and false alarm rates, response delay times, minimum detectable activities, and source localization errors, were analyzed. This paper will present the design, execution, and methodologies used to test this equipment for the DHS.},
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year = {Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2008},
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