Mixed species radioiodine air sampling readout and dose assessment system

Patent · 31 December 1977

OSTI ID:863034

Distenfeld, Carl H.; Klemish, Jr., Joseph R.

This invention provides a simple, reliable, inexpensive and portable means and method for determining the thyroid dose rate of mixed airborne species of solid and gaseous radioiodine without requiring highly skilled personnel, such as health physicists or electronics technicians. To this end, this invention provides a means and method for sampling a gas from a source of a mixed species of solid and gaseous radioiodine for collection of the mixed species and readout and assessment of the emissions therefrom by cylindrically, concentrically and annularly molding the respective species around a cylindrical passage for receiving a conventional probe-type Geiger-Mueller radiation detector.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): 4,079,628
• Application Number: 05/763165
• OSTI ID: 863034
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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