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In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | March 1971 | Pages 328-334
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Multichannel analyzers are necessary tools in activation analysis. The reliability of the analytical results depends on the correction for dead time. When measuring long-lived radionuclides, this correction is automatically applied in all modern instruments by lengthening the counting time. This procedure is not sufficient in the case of short-lived species. A residual error will remain. The correction to be applied depends on the total dead time at the beginning of the measurement and on the ratio preset time/half-life. The first quantity can be read from the analyzer.
