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Alpha contamination assessment for D&D activities [electronic resource] : Monitoring pipe interiors

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1996.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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11 pages : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary:
We have developed a prototype instrument capable of assessing alpha-emitting contamination on interior surfaces of ducts, pipes, tanks, and other enclosed volumes without inserting a probe. Air is drawn through the potentially contaminated volume and then through a detection grid, where ions created in the air by alpha particles are collected and the resulting charge measured with a sensitive electrometer. A filter at the intake end of the contaminated volume excludes externally created ions, so only ions generated inside the volume are detected. We have studied the response of this prototype in initial experiments using calibrated alpha sources with various pipe diameters and configurations, air flows, and source locations in the pipes. The results of these experiments indicate that this method can be an effective approach to assessing internal contamination.
Report Numbers:
E 1.99:la--13063-ms
la--13063-ms
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Published through SciTech Connect.
02/01/1996.
"la--13063-ms"
"DE96006237"
MacArthur, D.W.; Conaway, J.G.; Rawool-Sullivan, M.W.; Vaccarella, J.
Funding Information:
W-7405-ENG-36
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