Published 2014 | Version v1
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Comparative study on various portable Tritium-In-Air (TIA) monitoring devices and methodologies

Creators

  • 1. Health Physics Unit, Rawatbhata Rajasthan Site Unit-5 and 6, Rawatbhata (India)
  • 2. Health, Safety and Environment, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., Mumbai (India)

Description

In pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR), tritium contributes significantly in internal dose of the station. It is mainly produced by activation of deuterium and has a significant long radiological half life of 12.4 years. It is a pure soft beta emitter of energy 5.6 KeV (Eavg). Due to very low average energy of its beta, direct measurement of tritium has always been challenging. Although in commercial market, several Portable Tritium Monitors (PTM) are available for direct measurement of air-borne tritium activity, two makes (Premium analyse model 'Bionix' and Overhoff model '200SB-HTO') have been taken for the study. This study covers the response of PTMs in comparison with available conventional methods under various operating conditions of a PHWR and also highlights the limitation of technologies used for tritium trapping in PTMs

Part of:
Proceedings of the thirty first IARP national conference on advances in radiation measurement systems and techniques: abstract book

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Imprint Place
Mumbai (India)
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the thirty first IARP national conference on advances in radiation measurement systems and techniques: abstract book
Imprint Pagination
334 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 273

Conference

Title
31. IARP national conference on advances in radiation measurement systems and techniques
Acronym
IARPNC-2014
Dates
19-21 Mar 2014
Place
Mumbai (India)

INIS

Country of Publication
India
Country of Input or Organization
India
INIS RN
46053602
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
PARTICULATES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION MONITORS; TRITIUM
Descriptors DEC
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; EQUIPMENT; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; MONITORS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PARTICLES; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

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