Application of an improved in vivo counting program to Korean nuclear power plants

作者：Kong Tae Young^*; Kim Hee Geun

来源：Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2009, 67(7-8): 1311-1314.

DOI：10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.02.065

• In vivo counting
• Whole body counter
• External and internal contamination
• Counts from the front and back
• Geometry
• Radioisotopes

During the in vivo counting of individuals using a whole body counter at nuclear power plants (NPPs), external skin contamination is occasionally mistaken for internal radioactive contamination. This not only confuses the degree of external contamination and internal contamination, but can also result in the excessively conservative estimation of radioactive contamination. In this paper, previous experiments to improve in vivo counting at NPPs are introduced briefly and the practical application of techniques presented in those experiments to Korean NPPs is demonstrated in detail.

• 出版日期2009-8