Low-Level Measurements of Radioactivity in the Environment

Techniques and Applications

Proceedings of the Third International Summer School

Third International Summer School on Low-Level Measurements of Radioactivity in the Environment: Techniques and Applications

, Huelva, Spain

, 20 September — 2 October 1993

https://doi.org/10.1142/2239 | January 1994

Pages: 584

Edited by:
M García-León (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and
R García-Tenorio (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)

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This book contains the lectures, seminars and abstracts of short communications delivered at the above summer school. The talks are an updated account of the methods used in the detection of radioactivity in nature and in the study of its spread in the environment.

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Low-Level Counting — A Historical Review (4,444 KB)

Contents:

Low-Level Counting — A Historical Review (P Theodórsson)
Background in Ionizing Radiation Detection — Illustrated by Ge-Spectrometry (G Heusser)
Underground Low-Level Counting (P P Povinec)
The Randon Problem (F Schönhofer)
Radioactive Aerosol Measurement Techniques in Ambient Air (C Papastefanou)
Statistical Procedures for the Evaluation of Radioecological Investigations. Selected Examples (K Bunzl)
Radionuclides in Phosphorous Industries
Input-Output Balances, Environmental Emissions, Characteristics and Enhancements (H W Köster)
Fluxes and Technological Enhancement of Radionuclides in the Forest Industry (E Holm)
Spatial Data Analysis (E M Scott)
Radio-Nuclides as Indicators of Dispersion Pathways in Shelf Seas and in Estuarine Sediments (D Prandle)
Modeling the Radionuclide Insult in Forest Ecosystems from Nuclear Accidents. I. Initial Concepts (W R Schell)
and other papers

Readership: Nuclear physicists and radiation physicists.

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Low-Level Measurements of Radioactivity in the Environment: Techniques and ApplicationsProceedings of the Third International Summer School

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https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814534802

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The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:

Preface
Group Picture
Opening Address
I. Lectures and Invited Seminars
- Low-Level Counting - A Historical Review
- Background Components of Low-Level Beta- and Gamma-Detectors
- Systems for Low-Level Beta- and Gamma-Counting
- New Low-Level Counting Systems: CsI/Diode Scintillation Unit and a 4-Sample LSC System
- Background in Ionizing Radiation Detection - Illustrated by Ge-Spectrometry
- Underground Low-Level Counting
- Low Level Gamma-Ray Measurements in a 225 m Deep Underground Laboratory
- The Use of Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry for Low-Level Measurements
- Low-Level Gamma Ray Counting Applied for the Investigation of Antiproton-Nucleus Interaction
- Environmental Measurements of Radioactive Gases
- The Radon Problem
- Radioactive Aerosol Measurement Techniques in Ambient Air
- Alpha Track Detectors (ATD) in Radon Measurements for Earthquake Prediction Studies
- Natural and Man-Made Radionuclide Distribution in Soils of Cáceres (Spain). Dose Commitments Due to External Irradiation
- Distribution and Transfer of Caesium Radionuclides in Forest Soils of Southern Germany
- Investigation of Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclides in Soil and River Sediment
- Radionuclides in Phosphorous Industries; Input-Output Balances, Environmental Emissions, Characteristics and Enhancements
- Fluxes and Technological Enhancement of Radionuclides in the Forest Industry
- ²¹⁰Pb Dating Using the CRS-MV Model with Historical Data to Test and Evaluate Accuracy
- ¹⁴C in the Environment
- Statistical Procedures for the Evaluation of Radioecological Investigations. Selected Examples
- Spatial Data Analysis
- Risk: A Hazard in Everyday Life
- Simple Environmental Models for Radioactive Dispersal in the Marine Environment
- Radio-nuclides as Indicators of Dispersion Pathways in Shelf Seas and in Estuarine Sediments
- Modeling the Radionuclide Insult in Forest Ecosystems from Nuclear Accidents. I. Initial Concepts
- Modelling the Production of Cosmogenic Nuclides in Extraterrestrial Bodies
- Field Studies of Radiocaesium Sorbtion on Ammonium Molybdo Phosphate and Copper Ferrocyanide
II. Abstracts of Short Talks
List of Participants
Author Index