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Thermoluminescence dosimetry in environmental monitoring.

The increasing use of artificial sources of ionising radiation causes a need for the collection of well-documented data on radiation doses in the environment. An environmental dose monitoring system must be capable of measuring a man-made contribution on the order of one tenth of the natural background under unfavourable field conditions such as sunlight, extreme temperatures, high humidity, etc. Thermoluminescence dosimeters can satisfy these requirements and therefore they play very important role in environmental monitoring. Various high sensitivity dosimeter systems based on LiF:Mg,Cu,P and Al2O3:C along with TLD-700 were investigated in laboratory and field tests. The simulated environmental tests described in ANSI Draft Standard N13.29 were applied. TLD systems were involved in intercomparisons based on different protocols.

TLD; environmental monitoring; intercomparison

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