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Use of glasses as industrial dosimeters; Utilisation des verres comme dosimetres industriels

Abstract

Glasses have the property of colouring under the action of ionizing radiations. We endeavoured to specify the conditions under which the intensity of coloration can be used as a measure of the quantity of radiation to which the glass has been submitted. In the case of a glass loaded with cobalt, a study of the optical density at different wavelengths enabled us to find the factors governing the formation of coloured centres and their conservation in the glass. We give a set of calibrating curves for different values of these parameters (irradiation rate, irradiation temperature; fading time and fading temperature), enabling determination of radiation doses in the range from 10 000 to 1 000 000 rep from measured optical density. (author) [French] Les verres ont la propriete de se colorer sous l'action des rayonnements ionisants. Nous avons cherche a preciser les conditions dans lesquelles l'intensite de la coloration peut servir de mesure de la quantite du rayonnement auquel le verre a ete soumis. Dans le cas d'un verre charge au cobalt, l'etude de la densite optique a differentes longueurs d'onde a mis en evidence divers facteurs dont depend la formation des centres colores et leur conservation dans le verre. En  More>>
Authors:
Balestic, F; [1]  Le Clerc, P; Bonnaud, M [2] 
  1. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay (France).Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires
  2. Centre de Recherches des Glaceries de Saint-Gobain (France)
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1959
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
CEA-R-1213
Resource Relation:
Other Information: 2 refs
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ABSORPTION SPECTRA; ACCURACY; CALIBRATION; COBALT; COLORIMETRIC DOSEMETERS; DOSE RATES; GLASS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IRRADIATION PROCEDURES; OPACITY; RADIATION DOSES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WAVELENGTHS
OSTI ID:
20940732
Research Organizations:
CEA Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
French
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: FR07R1213094210
Availability:
Available from INIS in electronic form
Submitting Site:
FRN
Size:
16 pages
Announcement Date:
Nov 26, 2007

Citation Formats

Balestic, F, Le Clerc, P, and Bonnaud, M. Use of glasses as industrial dosimeters; Utilisation des verres comme dosimetres industriels. France: N. p., 1959. Web.
Balestic, F, Le Clerc, P, & Bonnaud, M. Use of glasses as industrial dosimeters; Utilisation des verres comme dosimetres industriels. France.
Balestic, F, Le Clerc, P, and Bonnaud, M. 1959. "Use of glasses as industrial dosimeters; Utilisation des verres comme dosimetres industriels." France.
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title = {Use of glasses as industrial dosimeters; Utilisation des verres comme dosimetres industriels}
author = {Balestic, F, Le Clerc, P, and Bonnaud, M}
abstractNote = {Glasses have the property of colouring under the action of ionizing radiations. We endeavoured to specify the conditions under which the intensity of coloration can be used as a measure of the quantity of radiation to which the glass has been submitted. In the case of a glass loaded with cobalt, a study of the optical density at different wavelengths enabled us to find the factors governing the formation of coloured centres and their conservation in the glass. We give a set of calibrating curves for different values of these parameters (irradiation rate, irradiation temperature; fading time and fading temperature), enabling determination of radiation doses in the range from 10 000 to 1 000 000 rep from measured optical density. (author) [French] Les verres ont la propriete de se colorer sous l'action des rayonnements ionisants. Nous avons cherche a preciser les conditions dans lesquelles l'intensite de la coloration peut servir de mesure de la quantite du rayonnement auquel le verre a ete soumis. Dans le cas d'un verre charge au cobalt, l'etude de la densite optique a differentes longueurs d'onde a mis en evidence divers facteurs dont depend la formation des centres colores et leur conservation dans le verre. En prenant comme parametres ces divers facteurs (temperature d'irradiation, intensite d'irradiation, temperature de conservation et duree de conservation) nous avons etabli des courus d'etalonnage permettant la determination de doses entre 10 000 et 1 000 000 rep d'apres la densite optique observee. (auteur)}
place = {France}
year = {1959}
month = {Jul}
}