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Quality control in environmental radioactivity measurements: experience of the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation, acting as International Reference Center Of the World Health Organization

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to make known the experiences in the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation (SCPRI) in two fields: (i)in relation to the survey of, and research on, environmental radiation in France for 15 years, and (ii) as the International Reference Center (IRC), a responsibility which has been assigned to it by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for more than 7 years. The SCPRI has no permanent activity in pure metrology but the control which it exerts on a national scale (more than 30,000 environmental samples analyzed each year) and the periodic intercomparisons which it organizes with a large number of foreign Public Health Laboratories have led to the development of a strict quality control program for the techniques of preparation and verification of standard sources and reference samples which are essential in the use of counters, the application and development of spectrometric and radiochemical analytical methods and in the distribution of samples for intercomparison purposes. A description is given of practical experience of quality control in the preparation of standards and in international inter-comparisons organized under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization.
Authors:
Remy, M L; Gahinet, M E; Moroni, J P; De Zertucha, J; Pellerin, P [1] 
  1. Service Central de Protection contre les Rayonnements Ionisants, 78 - Le Vesinet (France)
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1978
Product Type:
Conference
Reference Number:
AIX-09-404885; EDB-79-014390
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Environ. Int.; (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 1:1; Conference: Metrology needs in the measurement of environmental radioactivity, Paris, France, 4 - 6 Oct 1976
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 07 ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES; CALIBRATION STANDARDS; SPECIFICATIONS; ENVIRONMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; STANDARDIZATION; WHO; CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; ISOTOPES; MONITORING; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; STANDARDS; 500300* - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 510300 - Environment, Terrestrial- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 520300 - Environment, Aquatic- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1989); 655002 - Medical Physics- Radiation Source Calibration & Standardization
OSTI ID:
6591025
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: ENVID
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
Pages: 41-48
Announcement Date:
May 13, 2001

Citation Formats

Remy, M L, Gahinet, M E, Moroni, J P, De Zertucha, J, and Pellerin, P. Quality control in environmental radioactivity measurements: experience of the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation, acting as International Reference Center Of the World Health Organization. United Kingdom: N. p., 1978. Web.
Remy, M L, Gahinet, M E, Moroni, J P, De Zertucha, J, & Pellerin, P. Quality control in environmental radioactivity measurements: experience of the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation, acting as International Reference Center Of the World Health Organization. United Kingdom.
Remy, M L, Gahinet, M E, Moroni, J P, De Zertucha, J, and Pellerin, P. 1978. "Quality control in environmental radioactivity measurements: experience of the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation, acting as International Reference Center Of the World Health Organization." United Kingdom.
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title = {Quality control in environmental radioactivity measurements: experience of the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation, acting as International Reference Center Of the World Health Organization}
author = {Remy, M L, Gahinet, M E, Moroni, J P, De Zertucha, J, and Pellerin, P}
abstractNote = {The purpose of this paper is to make known the experiences in the Central Service for Protection against Ionizing Radiation (SCPRI) in two fields: (i)in relation to the survey of, and research on, environmental radiation in France for 15 years, and (ii) as the International Reference Center (IRC), a responsibility which has been assigned to it by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for more than 7 years. The SCPRI has no permanent activity in pure metrology but the control which it exerts on a national scale (more than 30,000 environmental samples analyzed each year) and the periodic intercomparisons which it organizes with a large number of foreign Public Health Laboratories have led to the development of a strict quality control program for the techniques of preparation and verification of standard sources and reference samples which are essential in the use of counters, the application and development of spectrometric and radiochemical analytical methods and in the distribution of samples for intercomparison purposes. A description is given of practical experience of quality control in the preparation of standards and in international inter-comparisons organized under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization.}
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volume = {1:1}
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year = {1978}
month = {Jan}
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