Gamma spectrometric system for measuring low and medium radioactive samples

Measuring radioactive samples from environment and animal sub-products which usually have low radioactivity and a mixture of a radionuclides, requires the use of complex spectrometric systems. In our Department such a system was development, currently equipped with scintillation detector. All the electronic modules (High Voltage Supply, Pulse Amplifier, ADC) in the system are fully digitally controlled by the computer via a specialized interface and a special device driver, which is a resident program. The spectrum acquisition is performed in the background by the device driver. Spectrum processing (peak search, background subtraction, radionuclide identification, energy and efficiency calibration, activity and associated error calculation) is done by a special application which has a user friendly graphic interface and includes database and reporting facilities. The next year the system will be equipped with an automatic sample changer for large volume samples. We intend to provide the possibility to use also a HPGe detector. (authors)