Watching the details in whole body counting
Journal Article
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· Radiation Protection Management; (United States)
OSTI ID:5349755
- Georgia Power Co., Atlanta, GA (US)
One of the most essential ingredients in a whole body counting program is attention to detail. At Georgia Power Company's Plant E. I. Hatch, an upgrade program was implemented to improve reliability, dependability, and accuracy by watching the details associated with operating the plant's two eight-year-old whole body counting systems. This article describes the elements of the upgrade program, which included analysis of the reproducibility of calibration geometries, verification of performance with source cross-checks and weekly source checks, software review and documentation, radionuclide library verification, cross talk analysis, evaluation of facility environmental factors, hardware spare parts inventory, and development of a tracking and trending system. Examples of daily parameter trend plots and system calibration logsheets are also presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 5349755
- Journal Information:
- Radiation Protection Management; (United States), Journal Name: Radiation Protection Management; (United States) Vol. 3:5; ISSN 0740-0640; ISSN RPMAE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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