Measurement of radiation leaked from a 45-MeV linear accelerator facility by gated counting.
By the gated counting method that had been developed by the authors the spatial dose distributions at the boundary and inside of a 45-MeV electron linear accelerator (linac) facility were obtained using a NaI(Tl) scintillation probe and a counting system. Both distributions of pulse height and radiation propagation time were also measured. At the facility boundary, dose rates measured ranged from 0.16 microR hr-1 to 0.86 microR hr-1, which were less than one-tenth the natural background. At measurement in the linac control room, two different leakage sources, one originating at and around the accelerator and the other at a microwave power system, were discriminated by measuring pulse height and time distributions simultaneously.
D004781:Environmental Exposure; D010315:Particle Accelerators; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012588:Scintillation Counting / Q000379:methods*