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Module 3B: Advanced Course in Gamma Spectrometry

Expand your expertise in gamma spectrometry: analyse, quantify and manage your measurements with confidence.
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Summary

A course designed to go beyond the basics and deepen your understanding of gamma spectrometry.
From interpreting complex spectra to quantitative analysis, via uncertainty management and understanding coincidence phenomena, this course provides the keys to understanding, diagnosing and resolving the advanced issues encountered in gamma spectrometry. Essential for gaining greater independence and rigour in nuclear measurements.

 

Practical Information & Prequisites

Price: €3250 excl. VAT per trainee

Location: At Veolia | Nuclear Solutions offices in Aix-en-Provence or at your premises (for a course with at least 6 participants)

Duration: 5 days (35 hours)

Prerequisites

  • Be able to read, write, understand and speak French
  • Have completed Module 3A or an equivalent course
  • Have A-level standard maths knowledge (logarithms, exponentials, solving equations with one unknown, statistics and probability)

 

Who is this course aimed at?

Any staff capable of carrying out gamma spectrometry measurements on behalf of a laboratory or a project. Technicians and engineers specialising in nuclear measurements.

 

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Learning objectives

  • Understand the concept of probability in nuclear physics
  • Correlate energy patterns with gamma spectra
  • Read and interpret gamma spectra
  • Identify the causes of certain problems that may arise during gamma spectrometry
  • Understand low-level measurement and methods for calculating the decision threshold

Teaching methods and tools

  • Course materials and discussions with the trainer
  • Tutorials

Assessment criteria

Tutorials and multiple-choice assessment tests at the end of the course.

Detailed content

  • A review of radioactivity and energy distributions up to the gamma spectrum, a probabilistic view of radiation-matter interactions
  • Qualitative analysis of simple and complex gamma spectra
  • Efficiency and quantitative analysis: principles of detector operation,
    experimental approach and measurement model, total absorption efficiency
  • Uncertainties, SD, LD in nuclear measurements: empirical approach to measurement uncertainty and SD, uncertainties as defined by the GUM, Poissonian process, variability and uncertainties"
  • Deconvolution
  • Concepts of coincidences and how to avoid them
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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

Business registration number: 84380920838 (registered with the Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region). This registration does not constitute state approval.