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Energy company Ansaldo Energia recently hosted a ceremony at its headquarters in Genoa, Italy, marking the launch of the Master in Technologies for Nuclear Power Plants program, which it developed in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano. A call for graduates in engineering, physics, and chemistry issued in May attracted more than 300 applications, 26 of which were selected for the program.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 957-963
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30529
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We have investigated various commercially available tritium-surface contamination monitors along with different swipe media and techniques for direct and indirect (swipe) monitoring of contaminated surfaces. The monitors tested were the Berthold LB1210 with both a LB6255 windowless detector and a BZ-200 XK-P xenon counter, a PC-55 windowless proportional counter from Nuclear Measurement Corporation, a Whitlock VSC 5000 surface-contamination monitor, and the Hurfurt “Microcont” surface monitor. A prototype E-perm® electret surface contamination monitor and MeltiLex™, a wax-based plastic scintillant were also evaluated for measuring tritium-surface contamination. None of the methods or instruments evaluated were more sensitive than the swipe/liquid-scintillation counting (LSC) method. Samples measured with open-window proportional counters were, in general, less than half as sensitive, but had the advantages of having the results available almost immediately and requiring minimal sample preparation. Instruments that measure surface contamination directly are sensitive and convenient but the measurement includes some nonremovable component that would not contribute to a person's dose. Instruments that use a detector with any type of window are too insensitive for routine workplace-surface monitoring.