Re: Measuring N16

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

David

If you mean the gamma dose rate (there are some truely enormous betas
emitted by that nuclide), the Victoreen 450P has been challenged by such a
measurement, at the U of Lowell, I believe, and read only about 5 - 10
percent high (relative to a doserate of unity at 662 keV). If you mean the
beta dose, I don't see why any thin-windowed ion chamber wouldn't do the
job (although I eagerly await correction on this one). Of course, you'd
still have to worry about what correction factor to use.

Break a leg
cja
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu

P.S. Please let us know what develops.

At 12:28 PM 8/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Is there a dose rate instrument that will measure the dose given off by N16?
>
>David Villicana
>Dresden 
>ComEd
>Training
>815-942-2920-2562
>David.S.Villicana@ucm.com

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