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Depth-dose distribution in bricks determined by thermoluminescence and by Monte-Carlo calculation for external γ-dose reconstruction
Ist Teil von
Applied radiation and isotopes, 1996-04, Vol.47 (4), p.433-440
Ort / Verlag
England: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
1996
Quelle
Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect (DFG Nationallizenzen)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The analysis of depth-dose distributions in bricks sampled from walls in areas with nuclear waste or accident contamination has the potential of providing information on the energy and source configuration of the γ-radiation that had been incident on the brick. In this study, a brick from a mill facing a shallow water reservoir of the contaminated Techa river in the South Ural region is investigated. Thermoluminescence (TL) methods were used to measure the accumulated dose at several depths in the brick. The accidental external γ-dose is obtained by subtracting the natural radiation background dose from the total accumulated dose. In the first segment of the brick, at a depth of about 1.5 cm, the accident dose was found to be roughly 3.5 Gy. Monte-Carlo simulations of the photon transport from the reservoir bed contaminated with
137Cs were calculated for different depths in the brick. The calculations were made assuming different attenuating water levels. It is found that the depth-dose distribution determined by measurements corresponds to a water level between 20 and 50 cm. The results indicate that TL measurements combined with Monte-Carlo modelling calculations are highly promising for external γ-dose reconstruction applications.