[ RadSafe ] Liquid Scintillation Counter

[Franz Schönhofer]

Mattias and RADSAFERs,

May I provide some facts about the present LS-market, not only in Europe, 
but world wide? There was recently the 2013 LSC - conference in Barcelona, 
which also gave new information about the market, though much was known 
since a few years.

Perkin Elmar has purchased not only Packard, but also Wallac from Turku , 
Finland. The excellent and very successful line of standard Wallac counters 
has been shut down immediately..... I had always favoured the Wallac 
counters because of their logarithmic pulse height scale, which was 
extremely favorable for my applications. Not to talk about the still 
outstanding features of the Quantulus regarding background.

Hidex has been started by Jukka Haaslahti and a few former employees of 
Wallac, but is obviously completely independent from Wallac and Perkin 
Elmar. As demonstrated at the above mentioned LSC conference in Barcelona  - 
a lot of
applications have been investigated and the outcome is promising.

So, Liz, consider carefully, what LLD's you want or have to achieve, check 
carefully the guaranteed LLD's and hire a person capable of doing the 
measurements.......

Best regards and "Vänlig hälsning fran Österrike efter 2:1 i fotboll....."

Franz





-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
From: Olsson Mattias :MSO
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 3:39 PM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Liquid Scintillation Counter

Hi,

In Europe there are, as far as I know, two manufacturers who share the LSC 
market. Perkin Elmer has the classic Tri-Carb models which we also have at 
the Forsmark NPP. The Tri-Carb works well but feels dated. People from old 
Wallac have gone on to market a more recent counter called Hidex. It works 
somewhat differently and has a third PM tube. Users in Sweden have been very 
positive. It's a good bet we will go to Hidex in a few years when we change 
our instruments. http://www.hidex.com/products/hidex-300-sl.aspx

A third manufacturer is Beckman but they have not been seriously considered 
by us.

All the best,

Mattias Olsson
Forsmark NPP, Sweden


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[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] För Dobson-Davis, Elizabeth M.
Skickat: den 10 juni 2013 13:00
Till: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Ämne: [ RadSafe ] Liquid Scintillation Counter

Hello-
Union College is looking to purchase a liquid Scintillation Counter. The 
main use will be analyzing weekly wipe tests from areas where C-14 research 
is being done. Any recommendations on brands & models from current users 
would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Liz Dobson-Davis, RSO


Elizabeth M. Dobson-Davis
Environmental Health & Safety Compliance Officer Union College Science & 
Engineering, Room S316
807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308

Office: 518-388-6340
Cell: 518-925-2753

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