INTERCAL: long-term inter-comparison experiment for dose rate and spectrometric probes

The Schauinsland inter-calibration facility (INTERCAL) has been designed to enable long-term comparison experiments for 20 different dose rate probes from different networks. Two reference probes characterised by the European Radiation Dosimetry WG3 inter-calibration experiments in 2008 and 2009 hav...

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Published in:Radiation protection dosimetry 2014-08, Vol.160 (4), p.306-310
Main Authors: Bleher, M, Doll, H, Harms, W, Stöhlker, U
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calibration
Environmental Pollution - analysis
Germany
Humans
Radiation Dosage
Radiation Monitoring - instrumentation
Radiation Monitoring - methods
Radiation Monitoring - standards
Radioactive Pollutants - analysis
Spectrometry, Gamma - methods
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Summary:The Schauinsland inter-calibration facility (INTERCAL) has been designed to enable long-term comparison experiments for 20 different dose rate probes from different networks. Two reference probes characterised by the European Radiation Dosimetry WG3 inter-calibration experiments in 2008 and 2009 have been installed at the INTERCAL facility. Additional instrumentation provides measured data of activity in air and nuclide-specific dose rate as well as environmental parameters such as air pressure, temperature, precipitation and soil moisture. Complementary to WG3 experiments, the INTERCAL platform is an ideal framework to investigate the long-term behaviour of dose rate probes and different spectrometry systems under environmental conditions. Two additional exposure experiments were performed in April 2009 and in May 2012.
ISSN:0144-8420
1742-3406
DOI:10.1093/rpd/ncu039