A program to generate simulated radioxenon beta-gamma data for concentration verification and validation and training exercises

PNNL developed a beta-gamma simulator (BGSim) that incorporated GEANT-modeled data sets from radioxenon decay chains, as well as functionality to use nuclear detector-acquired data sets to create new beta-gamma spectra with varying amounts of background, ¹³³Xe, ^131mXe, ^133mXe, ¹³⁵Xe, and ²²²Rn and its decay products. After BGSim was developed, additional uses began to be identified for the program output: training sets of two-dimensional spectra for data analysts at the IDC and other NDC, and spectra for exercises such as the Integrated Field Exercise 2014 held in Jordan at the Dead Sea. (author)