Re: New Subject - Shareware or inexpensive Radiation Safety Calc

[LIPTONW@detroitedison.com]

I highly recommend "Microshield".  This is a Windows based program that does 
photon attenuation and the inverse square law.  As a matter of fact, it 
handles a wide variety of source geometries, e.g., cylindrical, spherical, 
line, plane, and rectangular solid.  There is an optional "RadDecay" module, 
which I have never used, but which I assume is as good as the main program.  
It is fully validated, with the validation documentation available.  It is 
available from Grove Engineering, telephone  301-231-5137. 
 
The opinions expressed are strictly mine. 
Here's to a risk free world, and other fantasies. 
 
Bill Lipton 
liptonw@detroitedison.com

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• Subject: Re: New Subject - Shareware or inexpensive Radiation Safety Calc
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• Date: 30 Sep 97 12:00:32
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>I am reminded that I need to see if any others in the Rad Safety World
>have any good PC based programs to share or can name a commerical product
>to quickly calculate the decay law, inverse square law, specific activity,
>photon attenulation and a few of the other basics we use in Radiation
>Physics.


Can't say about a program for Photon Attn or specfifc activity and would
recommend a calculator for inverse square - but for isotope information and
decay schemes - I have found a shareware program Periodic Table of the
Elements handy.

Try it from

ftp://ehssun1.lbl.gov/tdcpub/utils/pt300.zip

Ted de Castro
tdc@ehssun.lbl.gov
University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Bldg 90 Rm 0026B
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 486-5256
(510) 486-6939 - FAX

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