TEPC performance in the CANDU workplace

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 70, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 197-202

  Waker, A J ^a   Szornel, K ^a   Nunes, J ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CANADA; CONFERENCE PAPER; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PHOTON; PROPORTIONAL COUNTER; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SPECTROMETER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0030974525     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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