title: INTERCAL: long-term inter-comparison experiment for dose rate and spectrometric probes.
abstract: The Schauinsland inter-calibration facility (INTERCAL) has been designed to enable long-term comparison experiments for 20 different dose rate probes from different networks. Two reference probes characterised by the European Radiation Dosimetry WG3 inter-calibration experiments in 2008 and 2009 have been installed at the INTERCAL facility. Additional instrumentation provides measured data of activity in air and nuclide-specific dose rate as well as environmental parameters such as air pressure, temperature, precipitation and soil moisture. Complementary to WG3 experiments, the INTERCAL platform is an ideal framework to investigate the long-term behaviour of dose rate probes and different spectrometry systems under environmental conditions. Two additional exposure experiments were performed in April 2009 and in May 2012.
authors.affiliation: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226 Salzgitter, Germany mbleher@bfs.de.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bleher
authors.affiliation: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226 Salzgitter, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Doll
authors.affiliation: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226 Salzgitter, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Harms
authors.affiliation: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Willy-Brandt-Straße 5, 38226 Salzgitter, Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Stöhlker
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D011848:Radioactive Pollutants