effective window thickness of 1.5 to 2 mg/em= (mica) and diameter of 1.75
inches.
The window thickness was increased to 7 me/em” by applying plastic
tape to the probe face.
This instrument was calibrated for gamma radiation using Heo and for
beta emissions using Msgr,
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Gamma Detectors.
Again, two instrumonts were utilized for gamma radiation measurements,
the Baird-Atomic Model NE-148 Scintillation Monitor 904-148, for low level
gamma field measurement, and the FIDLER plutonium-americium gamma probe
used only on the island of YVONNE for "hot spot"location.
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NE-148 Scintillation Monitor 904-148.
This was the “Baird-Atomic"
portable survey instrument which was the mainstay of the surface terrestrial
radiation exposure rate measurement program.
The model 904-148 Scintillation
Monitor is a highly sensitive instrument capable of measuring extremely fine
variations of gamma radiation in three ranges from 0-30 uR/hr to’ 3 mR/hr.
The detecting element is of the same nature as that used in the aerial
radiation survey, only smaller, being a 1 x 1 inch Sodium Iodide, NalI(T1l),
- erystal scintillator.
The instrument was calibrated using 137s, for gamma fields.
It proved
to be an extremely reliable device which was very rugged for use in the field.
FIDLER probe.
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