Published 1998 | Version v1
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Contamination of a neutron generator facility by tritium. II

Creators

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of Radiation Dozimetry, Na Truhlarce 64, 18086 Praha 8 (Czech Republic)

Description

The present paper is aimed at studying the decrease in workplace contamination with tritium after removal of the neutron generator. The values of volume activity (in the near vicinity of the institute) decreased from about 400 Bq m-3 to the level about 20 Bq m-3 of the air. This value is however by three orders of magnitude higher than present background concentrations of tritium in ground level air of Prague. In the monitored period of the highest contamination the limit of tritium concentration in the atmosphere valid that time for workers handling ionizing radiation was not exceeded, its value being 1.8 x 105 Bq m-3. The highest measured concentration in the radioisotope storage room, which was entered only occasionally, reached only 25% of the mentioned limit. (author)

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Radiation Hygiene Days 1998. Conference Proceedings of the 21-st Radiation Hygiene Days

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic
Imprint Place
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Imprint Title
Radiation Hygiene Days 1998. Conference Proceedings of the 21-st Radiation Hygiene Days
Imprint Pagination
250 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 171-173
Report number
INIS-SK--98-014

Conference

Title
21. Radiation Hygiene Days
Dates
23-27 Nov 1998
Place
Jasna pod Chopkom (Slovakia)

INIS

Country of Publication
Slovakia
Country of Input or Organization
Slovakia
INIS RN
30017838
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
ACTIVITY LEVELS; AEROSOL MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION MONITORING; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HYDROGEN TRITIDE; INDOOR AIR CONTAMINATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; KRYPTON 85; LIQUID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; LIQUID SCINTILLATORS; NEUTRON GENERATORS; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOLS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TRITIUM; TRITIUM OXIDES; TRITIUM TARGET; WORKING CONDITIONS
Descriptors DEC
AEROSOLS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHALCOGENIDES; COLLOIDS; CONTAMINATION; DATA; DISPERSIONS; EASTERN EUROPE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EUROPE; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; KRYPTON ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MASS TRANSFER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MICROSEC LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NEUTRON SOURCES; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE SOURCES; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLS; TARGETS; TRITIDES; TRITIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

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1 fig., 1 tab., 6 refs.