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[en] The Danish Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) in co-operation with the Technical University of Denmark (TUD), Department of Automation, participated in the international exercise RESUME-95 arranged in Finland in August 1995. DEMA performed measurement with their airborne gamma-ray surveying system. Surveys were done in the three areas known as AREA I, II, III. Results from AREA II (3 km x 6 km) show that the apparent 137Cs deposition assuming a deposition profile equal to the profile in AREA I based on soil samples varies from a few 10th kBqm-2 up to 110 kBqm-2. However, a detailed analysis using a new method, Noise Adjusted Singular Value Decomposition (NASVD), shows that the true variations probably are smaller and that the observed differences to some extend are due to major variations in the depth distribution of the cesium. For example agricultural areas appears to have cesium much deeper deposit than the undisturbed areas. Another interesting result is that the NASVD analysis shows that the ration of 134Cs to 137Cs is fixed and approximately 0.03 (August 1995) a number in good agreement with the expected ratio from the Chernobyl accident. No true real-time software for source detection is yet integrated in the Danish system. Results from AREA III, however, show that the implemented software for rapid post processing of data worked excellent for detection of radioactive sources. Post analysis using NASVD demonstrates that all sources except for a small 137Cs source can be localized. (au)
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Nordisk Kernesikkerhedsforskning, Roskilde (Denmark); 440 p; ISBN 87-7893-014-6;
; 1997; p. 91-100

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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, DETECTION, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DISTRIBUTION, ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES, EUROPE, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, MONITORING, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, RADIATION MONITORING, RADIOISOTOPES, SCANDINAVIA, SPECTROMETERS, WESTERN EUROPE, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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