Dosimetry at the Portuguese research reactor using thermoluminescence measurements and Monte Carlo calculations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 349-353

  Fernandes, A C ^a,b   Goncalves I C ^a   Santos, J ^a   Cardoso, J ^a   Santos, L ^a   Ferro Carvalho, A ^a   Marques, J G ^a,b   Kling, A ^a,b   Ramalho, A J G ^a   Osvay, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

^b CENTRO DE FÍSICA NUCLEAR DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c Institute of Isotopes   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; COPPER; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHORUS; THALLIUM; TITANIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; FAST NEUTRON RADIATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PHOTON; PORTUGAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PORTUGAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RESEARCH; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33750029303     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci560     Document Type: Article

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