RADIOISOTOPES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS THE INDUSTRIAL USE OF RADIOELEMENTS

Journal Article · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1961 · Bull. Inform. A.T.E.N.

OSTI ID:4829478

Perette, J

The expansion of Euratom and Foratom into the field of industrial application of radioisotopes is taken as an occasion to review the present status of industrial use of radioisotopes. A distinction is made between sealed and open radiation sources. The former are used for initiating chemical reactions, such as polymerization or for food preservation, elimination of static electricity, thickness measurement, sources of luminescence or electricity, radiography, nondestructive quality control, and in the automatization of chemical or mechanical processes. alpha , beta , and gamma radiation sources, direct irradiation or backscattering, bremsstrahlung, and the x rays released by beta radiation are used. Open radioisotopes are used as tracers in the most diverse fields of scientific research and industrial control. Two special forms of open usage of the radioactive gas, Kr/sup 85/, should be mentioned: (a) detecting the tightness of containers by placing them in a Kr/sup 85/ containing vessel and determining whether the container after removal from the vessel shows some radioactivity; and (b) detecting tracers of O/sub 3/ or SO/ sub 2/ with an organic clathrate'' containing Kr/sup 85/ which by the action of the substance to be detected is released and thus can be measured radiographically. (OID)

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-16-024051
• OSTI ID: 4829478
• Journal Information: Bull. Inform. A.T.E.N., Journal Name: Bull. Inform. A.T.E.N. Vol. Vol: No. 28
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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AGE
ALPHA PARTICLES
ALPHA SOURCES
BREMSSTRAHLUNG
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CONTROL ELEMENTS
DETECTION
ELECTRICITY
ELECTRON SOURCES
ELECTRONS
ELECTROSTATICS
FOOD
GAGES
GAMMA SOURCES
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF ISOTOPES AND RADIATIONS
IRRADIATION
KRYPTON 85
LEAK DETECTORS
LUMINESCENCE
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OZONE
PARTICLE SOURCES
POLYMERIZATION
PRESERVATION
RADIATION SOURCES
RADIOGRAPHY
RADIOISOTOPES
SCATTERING
SEALS
SERVOMECHANISMS
SULFUR OXIDES
THICKNESS
TRACER TECHNIQUES
USES
VESSELS
X RADIATION