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Fundamentals of Gamma Spectroscopy

An Essential Three-Days Course For Nuclear Metrology

3 Friday Course

Face to face

2025-06-06 2025-06-13 2025-06-20
Richland, Washington

NEEDS/BENEFITS|AGENDA|COST
Course-Description

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.

The Needs - How You'll Benefit from This Course

This course is designed to acquaint the student to Gamma instrument and measurements required to detect, monitor, record, and analyze radioactive materials. This will provide quantitative understanding of instrument calibration, surveys and measurements, quality control of data and analyses. The emphasis of this course will be on twenty principles of achieving excellence in gamma 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 gamma. This course will provide both theoretical as well as practical knowledge of the gamma spectroscopy.

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Key Topics You'll Learn About

  • Basics and Units of Radioactivity
  • Interaction of Radiations with Matter
  • Fundamental of Radiation Measurements and Detection
  • Types of detection equipment and capabilities
  • Detector Principles
  • Calibration of Gamma Systems
  • Counting statistics
  • Phenomenon/Implication of Dead Time
  • Instrument nonlinearity
  • Calibration and Managing errors in calibrations
  • Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
  • Twenty Principles of Excellence in Gamma Spectroscopy
  • Gamma Spectroscopy check list
  • Shielding
  • Counting Samples
  • Laboratory Exercises
  • Treatment of background radiation
  • Use of Standards
  • ANSI Standard N13.49
  • Measuring contamination
  • Demonstrations with radioactive consumer products
  • Practical problem solving sessions

Program Agenda - What You'll Learn in this Course *All courses are taught from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm each day

Day 1:

  • Basics and Units of Radioactivity
  • Interaction of Radiations with Matter
  • Fundamental of Radiation Measurements and Detection
  • Types of detection equipment and capabilities
  • Detector Principles
  • Calibration of Gamma Systems
  • Counting statistics
  • Phenomenon/Implication of Dead Time
Day 2:
  • Instrument nonlinearity Calibration and Managing errors in calibrations
  • Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
  • Twenty Principles of Excellence in Gamma Spectroscopy Treatment of background radiation
  • Use of Standards
  • ANSI Standard N13.49
  • Measuring contamination
  • Demonstrations with radioactive consumer products
  • Practical problem solving sessions
  • Gamma Spectroscopy check list
  • Shielding
  • Counting Samples
  • Laboratory Exercises
Day 3:

  • Treatment of background radiation
  • Use of Standards
  • ANSI Standard N13.49
  • Measuring contamination
  • Demonstrations with radioactive consumer products
  • Practical problem solving sessions

Cost/Reservations

$1,999.00

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The Radiochemistry Society reserves the right to reschedule course dates and/or locations as necessary per enrollment requests.

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