title: Radiological protection evaluation of the Bucharest Tandetron 3 MV accelerator.
abstract: Low energy heavy charged particle accelerators are generators of ionizing radiation, due to the ion beam interactions into the machine components, targets and surrounding materials. Nowadays there are available computational tools allowing realistic estimates of radiation doses and residual activity of the activated components. These evaluations are further used to design the radiological safety system required by licensing and operation of the equipment.This paper presents results of measurements and numerical simulations of the radiation doses and residual activity, at the recently commissioned Bucharest 3 MV Cockcroft-Walton type Tandetron accelerator presently used mainly for Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) research.
authors.affiliation: Horia Hulubei-National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Reactorului 30, PO BOX MG-6, Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania. Physics Department, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independenţei 313, RO-060042, Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: I O
authors.initials: IO
authors.lastname: Mitu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Floare
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Ghiţă
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Moşu
authors.forename: Gh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Căta-Danil
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006814:Hungary; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D000069079:Radiation Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation