Establishment of a method for the rapid measurement of gross alpha and gross beta activities in sea water

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 978-981

  Zapata Garcia D ^a   Llaurado M ^a   Rauret, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental radioactivity; Gross alpha beta measurement; Liquid scintillation counting; Quenching; Sea water

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GROSS ALPHA/BETA MEASUREMENT; GROSS ALPHAS; GROSS BETAS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MATRIXES; QUALITY PARAMETERS; QUENCHING PARAMETERS; RAPID MEASUREMENTS; RAPID METHODS; WORK STUDIES;

DOSIMETRY; FORESTRY; LIQUIDS; LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEAWATER;

QUENCHING;

RADIOISOTOPE; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER ANALYSIS;

ALPHA PARTICLES; BETA RAYS; HUMANS; METHODS; SALTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SEAWATER;

EID: 63249115660     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.01.081     Document Type: Article

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