Long-term environment monitoring based on MTS-N (LiF:Mg, Ti) and MCP-N (LiF:Mg, Cu, P) thermoluminescent detectors

Title: Long-term environment monitoring based on MTS-N (LiF:Mg, Ti) and MCP-N (LiF:Mg, Cu, P) thermoluminescent detectors

Author: Budzanowski, M.; Olko, P.; Obryk, B.; Ryba, E.; Nowak, A.

Reference: Radiation Measurements, Aug.-Dec. 2004, vol.38, no.4-6, pp. 821-4

doi: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2004.01.023

Keywords: Thermoluminescence; TLD; LiF; Environmental measurements

Abstract: An environmental radiation monitoring system using standard MTS-N (LiF:Mg, Ti) and high-sensitive thermoluminescent LiF:Mg,Cu,P (MCP-N) detectors was applied to control the radiation exposure over the area of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) in Kraków. First environmental measurements using MTS-N detectors began in 1970 at five locations and were continued during the Chernobyl accident at six sites. In March 1987 high-sensitive MCP-N detectors read out in a manual TL reader were first introduced into service at the INP. Since 1992 about 60 locations over an area of the INP were selected for quarterly dose rate measurements, using an automatic TLD system based on MTS-N detectors placed in cards. In 2002 MTS-N detectors were replaced by high-sensitive MCP-N pellets.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350448704000290

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