Calculations Flashcards
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True count rate in a GM tube given its dead time
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Concentration of a radionuclide in a living organism based on intake of a radionuclide from a secondary source
Define and Calculate
Nominal ocular hazard distance
The intrabeam axial distance from the laser to the exposed individual’s eyes beyond which the exposure would be less than the MPE.
Calculate / Equation
Standard deviation of net count rate
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Intake of an airborne radionuclide
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Dose rate given activity, emission information, and an attenuating material.
Calculate the number of beam particles per second that are available to interact with an accelerator target
Calculation
Energy of a photon
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Activity of a material that has been activated by a neutron flux.
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Steady state indoor radon concentration (from a floor source emanating radon)
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The number of transformations of a radionuclide in a source organ per unit of activity taken into the body.
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Extrapolation
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Average power assumed to be delivered to an observer
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Electric field strength (E)
Define the situation that creates Secular Equilibrium (case 1).
Calculate the number of daughter atoms (ND).
The parent has a huge half-life, but the daughter has a small half-life.
λD >> λP
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Dose rate from exposure rate
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Exposure to short-lived radon progeny in working level months per year
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Number of ion pairs produced in an ion chamber.
Charge deposited in an ion chamber.
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Specific activity
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Alpha particle’s range in air (E < 4 MeV)
Rα = 0.56E
Rα = range in cm of air at 1 atm and 15°C.
E = energy (MeV)
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Annual collective effective dose in the control room of an accelerator facility.
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Airborne activity (correcting for radon activity) in a downwind location from a fire in a facility containing plutonium.
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Attenuation/transmission of primary X-ray beam from shielding of medical/dental facilities.
(NCRP 145/147)
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Gain of a microwave antenna
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Observed gross count rate measuring beta-emitting particles near work activities presenting an airborne hazard
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Fraction of energy converted to photons via bremsstrahlung
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DAC level in an isolated room where there was an inadvertent release of source material
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The rate a radionuclide is being introduced into the atmosphere as a leak from the reactor coolant system.
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Unshielded absorbed dose rate in rad hr-1 from a shipping container emitting gamma radiation
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Dose to an organ over a period of time following a beta-emitter uptake in (µCi g-1)
(0.511 shortcut)
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Maximum power output given exposure time, MPE, and beam diameter
Calculate / Equation
Optimize gross and background counting times
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Number of pulses per second
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Risk of death using the relative risk model
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Exposure rate in a free-air ionization chamber
How do you calculate far field power density (W) for a microwave antenna?
Thumb Rule
Exposure rate using the 6CEN rule
Describe / Calculate
Type II Error
- Falsely concluding activity is less than the physically significant activity (PSA) when there is in fact activity actually present.
- Occurs with a probability β (typically 5%).
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MDA at a 95% confidence level
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Neutron dose equivalent in rem received by a technician during a criticality incident
Define / Calculate
Type I Error
- Falsely concluding activity is present in a sample above the established physically significant activity (PSA) when in fact the activity is zero.
- Occurs with a probability α (typically 5%).
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Intake Retention Factor
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Internal dose to an individual who consumes contaminated fish from a river contaminated by an effluent with radionuclides
Define the situation that creates No Equilibrium (case 3).
Calculate the number of daughter atoms (ND).
The parent half-life is shorter than the daughter half-life.
λD < λP
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The activity of the parent radionuclide in the source organ
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Beta particle’s range in air (E > 2.5 MeV)
Rβ = 530E - 106
Rβ = range in mg cm-2
E = max energy (MeV)
State the equation to calculate activity (A).