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Module 3A: General Principles of Gamma Spectrometry

The essentials for successfully carrying out your first gamma spectrometry measurement with confidence
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Summary

A course designed to teach you all the fundamentals of gamma spectrometry, from gamma-matter interactions through to detection, covering the entire measurement chain. An essential course for understanding the methods used to identify and quantify radionuclides using gamma spectrometry.


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Practical Information & Prequisites

Price: €3250 excl. VAT per trainee

Location: At Veolia | Nuclear Solutions offices in Aix-en-Provence

Duration: 5 days (35 hours)

Prerequisites

  • Reading, writing, understanding and speaking French
  • Module 1 or equivalent (understanding physical quantities such as activity, dose and the associated units)
  • Mathematical knowledge at A-level standard (logarithms, exponentials, solving equations with one unknown)

 

Who is this course aimed at?

Any staff who may be required to carry out gamma spectrometry measurements or interpret
gamma spectra. This includes operators, technicians and engineers.

 

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Learning objectives

  • Be able to read an emission table for common radionuclides
  • Understand all the radiation-matter interactions that lead to the detection of gamma photons
  • Correlate the shape of a gamma spectrum with gamma-matter interactions
  • Identify all the components of a gamma spectrometry chain and their functions
  • Wire up a gamma spectrometry chain using a germanium detector
  • Calibrate a chain for energy and efficiency
  • Identify and quantify a radionuclide using a spectrum

Teaching methods and tools

  • Course materials and discussions with the trainer.
  • Tutorials and practical sessions

Assessment criteria

Tutorials, practical sessions and a multiple-choice assessment at the end of the course.

Detailed content

  • A refresher on radioactivity and radioactive decay
  • Radiation-matter interactions. Interaction probabilities, photon attenuation in matter
  • General principles of detection, detection principles and modes
  • The gamma spectrometry chain: semiconductors, cooling, measurement electronics
  • Total detection efficiency, geometric and intrinsic, transfer functions and KE
  • Concepts relating to SD and LD and concepts relating to uncertainties

Practical sessions involve the use of sources of ionising radiation. For further information, please refer to the recommendations set out in the Terms and Conditions or contact us by email at [email protected]

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VEOLIA | NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS FRANCE

240 rue Louis de Broglie

Bâtiment A, les Méridiens

13290 Aix-en-Provence

Phone: +33 (0)961483511

Email: [email protected]

(7 minutes from the TGV station and 20 minutes from Aix-en-Provence)

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Accessibility and disability

Before any training course begins, we ensure that the course on offer is accessible to people with disabilities, or those with specific needs that require consideration.

Please also contact our disability liaison officer by email at cé[email protected] so that we can discuss any adjustments that may need to be made to help ensure the success of your studies

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