RE: Measuring N16

["Migliore, Charles W" <Charles.W.Migliore@nspco.com>]

What's wrong with a good old trusty RO2?

Charles Migliore
mglc98@nspco.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David.S.Villicana@ucm.com [SMTP:David.S.Villicana@ucm.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 19, 1999 5:40 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	RE: Measuring N16
> 
> I am looking for the gamma constituent, but really had not thought of the
> beta. 
> What I am looking at is as we move toward online maintenance and into the
> steam sensitive areas where we will see the N16, technicians are wanting
> to
> know what it is that they are really seeing in regards to dose rates.
> 
> Thanks 
> David Villicana
> Dresden
> Training
> ComEd
> 815-942-2920-2562
> David.S.Villicana@UCM.COM
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Chris Alston [SMTP:alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, August 18, 1999 4:37 PM
> > To:	Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject:	Re: Measuring N16
> > 
> > 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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