Use of Gamma Spectrometry Method for Environmental Monitoring in the area of NPP

It is generally not possible to correctly determine the long and short term impact of human activity upon the environment, without thorough processing of data, obtained through monitoring. It was confirmed that such impact on the environment must be monitored over a long time period. The data obtain...

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Published inJournal of physics. Conference series Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 569 - 572
Main Authors Thinova, L, Cechak, T, Kluson, J, Trojek, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.05.2006
Subjects
Bark
Dosimeters
Environmental impact
Environmental monitoring
Fission products
Human influences
Humus
Laboratories
Physics
Quality assurance
Radioisotopes
Scientific imaging
Spectrometry
Spectroscopy
Trend analysis
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Summary:It is generally not possible to correctly determine the long and short term impact of human activity upon the environment, without thorough processing of data, obtained through monitoring. It was confirmed that such impact on the environment must be monitored over a long time period. The data obtained must be of high quality, an attribute assured by present state of scientific knowledge. One of the well established methods for monitoring atmospheric deposition of radionuclides in the environment is laboratory and in situ gamma spectrometry. With the aim to monitor an occurrence of a one-time escape or persistent release of fission products into the air, resulting from an operation of a nuclear plant, two types of monitoring are performed: i/ measurement of samples from the environment (Schreber moss, forest humus, pine bark, mushrooms and forest berries) using laboratory gamma spectrometry method in the range up to 3 MeV (those data are used for the trend analysis and for the construction of the contaminationmaps); ii/ in situ gama spectrometry for assessment dosimetry and spectrometry characteristic of photon-fields (those data are used for the dose rate calculation).
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/41/1/071