Colloid Chemical Study on Radioactive Contamination of Living Substance (Part 2) Contamination of Gelatin Films

Radioactive contamination of scintillators

Low counting experiments (search for double β decay and dark matter particles, measurements of neutrino fluxes from different sources, search for hypothetical nuclear and subnuclear processes, low background α, β, γ spectrometry) require extremely low background of a detector. Scintillators are widely used to search for rare events both as conventional scintillation detectors and as cryogenic s...

Early-stage bioassay for monitoring radioactive contamination in living livestock.

Soil samples from the ground surface and feces and blood from a mixed-breed male pig were collected on April 10, 2011 at a farm within 20 km of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The radioactivity of each sample was measured using a Ge semiconductor detector. Despite the fact that the pig had been fed non-contaminated imported feed, (131)I, (134)Cs and (137)Cs were detected in the feces...

Thule-2003 - Investigation of Radioactive Contamination

Radioactive contamination of ZnWO4 crystal scintillators

The radioactive contamination of ZnWO4 crystal scintillators has been measured deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of the INFN in Italy with a total exposure 3197 kg × h. Monte Carlo simulation, time-amplitude and pulse-shape analyses of the data have been applied to estimate the radioactive contamination of the ZnWO4 samples. One of the ZnWO4 crystals has also been te...

On Controlling the Chemical Contamination of Groundwater

1. Public Policy Issues 2. Information Gathering 2.1. Environmental Behavior Predicted from Chemical Properties 2.2 Transformation of Chemicals 2.3 Chemical Transport 2.4 Innovative Management Practices 2.4.1 Agricultural Management Practices 2.4.2 Waste Containment Technology 2.5 Contaminant Reduction and Conversion 2.6 Characterization of Groundwater Flow Systems 2.7 Toxicological Assessment ...