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The when, where, why, and how of RIPB design
The American Nuclear Society’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) held another presentation in its monthly Community of Practice (CoP) series.
Watch the full webinar here.
Nader M. A. Mohamed, M. Abou Mandour
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 147 | Number 2 | June 2004 | Pages 185-188
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE04-A2428
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A new concept was proposed to calibrate gamma spectrometers for measuring the activity of volumetric samples. The concept used a formula that was developed to give a correction factor to the detector efficiency when the detector was calibrated with a point source. The concept gave efficiency curves for an HPGe detector. The results obtained by the concept yielded deviations between 0.5 to 5% from the experimental data. The concept needs only the availability of the MCNP code or similar gamma transport codes.
