Determination of the (241)Am activity in real contaminated slag

O Burda; D Arnold; H Wershofen

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.031

Determination of the (241)Am activity in real contaminated slag

Appl Radiat Isot. 2016 Mar:109:452-455. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.031. Epub 2015 Dec 2.

Authors

O Burda¹, D Arnold², H Wershofen²

Affiliations

¹ Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany. Electronic address: Oleksiy.Burda@ptb.de.
² Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.

PMID: 26688357
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.031

Abstract

One of the main tasks of the EMRP IND04 MetroMetal project "Ionising Radiation Metrology for the Metallurgical Industry" was to develop sets of reference sources in various matrices such as cast steel, slag and fume dust for the calibration of the gamma spectrometric detector prototypes developed in the frame of the project. This work is focused on the characterisation of real contaminated slag material with (241)Am using the transmission measurements in combination with Monte-Carlo simulations. The method and the results are presented and discussed.

Keywords: Gamma-ray spectrometry; Ionising radiation measurements; Metallurgy; Metrology; Reference source; Slag.