Development of a portable survey meter system for the studies of uranium discovery

Akcaglar S., Bayburt M., Kahveci O.

JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, cilt.295, sa.1, ss.415-418, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 295 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10967-012-1962-0
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.415-418
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Portable survey meter, Uranium, Terrestrial radiation, Background radiation, DOSE-RATES
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, a portable radiation measurement system which has a microprocessor-controller was developed for uranium discovery. The developed system has the feature of saving the counting data from a Geiger-Mueller detector and position data from a global positioning system. The pulses obtained from the detector were transferred into a counting input of a microprocessor via a pulse shaper. Evaluation of the pulses has been performed by microprocessor's software. The results obtained from the developed radiation detection system were compared with those of a calibrated reference detector system. The developed system has some important features such as low current consumption, low cost, small size and lightness.