Infrastructure

Redundant links: Irradiation Room I | Irradiation Room II  | Irradiation Room III  | Control Room

Irradiation Room I

X Radiation

• Manufacturer and Model: YXLON MGC41; 2 Philips ampoules;
• Maximum Power:  40 mA;
• Calibrations: air Kerma and absorbed dose to water.

Gama Radiation

• Manufacturer and Model: Shepherd 81 Calibrator
• Sources:
  - ⁶⁰Co (16 GBq; 148 GBq);
  - ¹³⁷Cs (81 GBq; 814 GBq; 7,4 TBq);
  - ²⁴¹Am (37 GBq).
• Calibrations: radiological protection quantities.

 

• Manufacturer and Model: Buchler OB-34/1 BA
• Sources:
  - ⁶⁰Co (3,7 GBq; 25 GBq; 370 GBq);
  - ¹³⁷Cs (7,4 MBq; 74 MBq; 740 MBq; 7,4 GBq).
• Calibrations: radiological protection quantities.

 

Irradiation Room II

Gama Radiation

• Manufacturer and Model: AECL Eldorado 6
• Source: ⁶⁰Co (92,5 TBq).
• Calibrations: air Kerma and absorbed dose to water.

 

Irradiation Room III

Beta Radiation

• Manufacturer and Model: Buchler BSS-BA
• Sources:
  - ⁹⁰Sr+⁹⁰Y (1,85 MBq; 74 MBq);
  - ¹⁴⁷Pm (518 MBq);
  - ²⁰⁴Tl (18,5 GBq);
• Calibrations: absorbed dose to tissue.

 

Beta and Alfa Radiations

  Set of standard sources for calibration of radioactive
  surface contamination monitors:

• Sources:
  - Alpha Radiation (5,484 MeV);
  - Beta Radiation (0,049 MeV a 0,566 MeV).
• Calibrations: activity per unit area (Bq/cm²).

 

Control Room

 

  Where the beginning and end of radiation exposures in the different
  rooms is controlled and where all the experimental data is collected.