About This Course
This course is designed to acquaint the student to Alpha instrument and measurements required to detect, monitor, record, and analyze alpha emitters such as Actinides materials. This will provide quantitative understanding of instrument calibration, surveys and measurements, sample preparation, quality control of data and analyses. The emphasis of this course will be on twenty principles of achieving excellence in alpha spectroscopy. The Radiochemistry Society faculty members that will be teaching this course not only hold PhDs in radiochemistry but also have more than 50 years of combined, hands-on experience with the alpha systems. This course will provide both theoretical as well as practical knowledge of the alpha spectrometry.

Who Should Attend
All personnel needing an understanding of radioactive materials, implementing radiation monitoring programs how radiation is categorized, detected, and measured, people responsible nuclear medicine technologies, radiation safety officers, environmental and waste management, people responsible for homeland security activities as they relate to detection and protection from nuclear materials and weapons.

Key Topics You’ll Learn About

• Destructive sample preparation
• Fundamental of Radiation Measurements and Detection
• Types of detection equipment and capabilities
• Detector Principles
• Calibration of Alpha Systems
• Counting statistics
• Instrument nonlinearity
• Calibration and Managing errors in calibrations
• Alpha Ray Spectroscopy
• Twenty Principles of Excellence in Alpha Spectroscopy
• Alpha Spectrometry check list
• Alpha Software
• Counting Samples
• Laboratory Exercises
• Treatment of background radiation
• Use of Standards
• ANSI Standard N13.30
• Measuring contamination
• Demonstrations with radioactive consumer products
• Practical problem solving sessions

Program Agenda *All courses are taught from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm each day

Day 1:

• Basics and Units of Radioactivity
• Destructive sample preparation
• Fundamental of Radiation Measurements and Detection
• Types of detection equipment and capabilities
• Detector Principles
• Calibration of Alpha Systems
• Counting statistics

Day 2:

• Instrument nonlinearity
• Calibration and Managing errors in calibrations
• Alpha Ray Spectroscopy
• Twenty Principles of Excellence in Alpha Spectroscopy
• Alpha Spectrometry check list
• Alpha Software
• Counting Samples
• Laboratory Exercises

Day 3:

• Instrument nonlinearity
• Calibration and Managing errors in calibrations
• Alpha Ray Spectroscopy
• Twenty Principles of Excellence in Alpha Spectroscopy
• Alpha Spectrometry check list
• Alpha Software
• Counting Samples

Cost/Reservations
Cost for this course is $1,995.00 [U.S.] with All Proceeds going to the Radiochemistry Society. Space is extremely limited. In order to assure placement we encourage a prompt response.