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Radiation Monitoring System

At nuclear facilities, remote radiation monitoring systems (RMS) are installed to monitor radiation levels at selected plant locations. The radiation monitoring system with pre-set alarm levels (e.g., for dose, dose rate, or airborne activity) provides a reliable means of real-time monitoring of the radiological conditions to which a worker is exposed. If these levels are exceeded, alarms are activated, and in some cases, automatic protective functions are initiated. Thus the system serves to:

  • Warn of any radiation health hazard
  • Give an early warning of a plant malfunction
  • Initiate automatic protective functions.

All data are collected in a radiation protection control room. The radiation monitoring system may gather all information on the radiological conditions at various working areas, as well as voice and visual feedback, with a minimum presence of RP technicians in radiation areas, reducing the dose to such personnel. Several types of radiation monitors are used in the RMS, depending on the source and strength of the radiation source.

  • Airborne Contamination Monitors
  • Area Monitors
  • Iodine Monitors
  • In-vent Gas Monitors
References:

Radiation Protection:

  1. Knoll, Glenn F., Radiation Detection and Measurement 4th Edition, Wiley, 8/2010. ISBN-13: 978-0470131480.
  2. Stabin, Michael G., Radiation Protection, and Dosimetry: An Introduction to Health Physics, Springer, 10/2010. ISBN-13: 978-1441923912.
  3. Martin, James E., Physics for Radiation Protection 3rd Edition, Wiley-VCH, 4/2013. ISBN-13: 978-3527411764.
  4. U.S.NRC, NUCLEAR REACTOR CONCEPTS
  5. U.S. Department of Energy, Instrumentation, and Control. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 2 of 2. June 1992.

Nuclear and Reactor Physics:

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  4. Glasstone, Sesonske. Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Systems Engineering, Springer; 4th edition, 1994, ISBN: 978-0412985317
  5. W.S.C. Williams. Nuclear and Particle Physics. Clarendon Press; 1 edition, 1991, ISBN: 978-0198520467
  6. G.R.Keepin. Physics of Nuclear Kinetics. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co; 1st edition, 1965
  7. Robert Reed Burn, Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Operation, 1988.
  8. U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 1 and 2. January 1993.
  9. Paul Reuss, Neutron Physics. EDP Sciences, 2008. ISBN: 978-2759800414.

See above:

Dosimetry in NPPs