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Detecting Environmental Radioactivity

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Authors:
  1. Manuel García-León

    1. Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

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  • Presents the subject of radionuclides in the environment and related methods of analysis and monitoring
  • Includes discussions on mass spectrometry techniques together with traditional low level counting techniques
  • Enriched with descriptions of scintillators, semiconductors, and gas ionization detectors

Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Radioactivity: History and Phenomenology

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    Pages 1-20

  3. Radioactivity: Decay Law, Definitions, and Units

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    Pages 21-34

  4. Natural and Artificial Radioactivity

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    Pages 35-50

  5. Environmental Radioactivity

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    Pages 51-103

  6. Levels and Behavior of Environmental Radioactivity

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    Pages 105-193

  7. Radiological Impact. Radiation Dosimetry

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    Pages 195-220

  8. Principles of Radiation Detection: Interaction of Radiation with Matter

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    Pages 221-258

  9. Principles of Radiation Detection: Counting and Spectrometry

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    Pages 259-279

  10. Gas Ionization Detectors

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    Pages 281-298

  11. Scintillation Detectors

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    Pages 299-337

  12. Semiconductor Detectors

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    Pages 339-374

  13. Dosimeters, Other Detectors, and Specific Designs

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    Pages 375-390

  14. Radiochemistry for Environmental Samples

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    Pages 391-442

  15. Principles of Low-Level Counting and Spectrometry

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    Pages 443-465

  16. Low-Level Counting and Spectrometry Techniques

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    Pages 467-493

  17. Principles of Mass Spectrometry

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    Pages 495-519

  18. Principles of Particle Accelerators

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    Pages 521-545

  19. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)

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    Pages 547-574

  20. Neutron Activation Analysis

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    Pages 575-605
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About this book

This textbook presents the principles and methods for the measurement of radioactivity in the environment. In this regard, specific low-level radiation counting and spectrometry or mass spectrometry techniques are discussed, including sources, distribution, levels and dynamics of radioactivity in nature. The author gives an accurate description of the fundamental concepts and laws of radioactivity as well as the different types of detectors and mass spectrometers needed for detection. Special attention is paid to scintillators, semiconductor detectors, and gas ionization detectors. In order to explain radiochemistry, some concepts about chemical separations are introduced as well. The book is meant for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in physics, chemistry or engineering oriented to environmental sciences, and to other disciplines where monitoring of the environment and its management is of great interest.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

    Manuel García-León

About the author

Manuel García-León received his PhD degree in Nuclear Physics (1983) from the University of Seville where is Full Professor of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics since 1997. He has more than 200 publications in international journals, including 4 edited books, mostly on low-level counting techniques and accelerator mass spectrometry applied to the determination of radionuclides in the environment. He has supervised 20 PhD Thesis and 40 Master Thesis. He has been invited as researcher in many Universities and Research Centers (Lund, Uppsala, Helsinki, Vienna, Sendai, Kanazawa, ETH/PSI at Zürich, NIRS at Japan, IAE in China among others). With some 40 years of experience, he has an intensive teaching activity in the University of Seville and other Spanish Universities, mainly on experimental nuclear physics, applied nuclear physics as well as radioactivity and environmental Radioactivity. Currently, he is coordinating a Joint Master Studies Programme in nuclear physics offered by several Spanish Universities and Research Centers. Since 2000 he has been involved in University and Science management activities, being Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Physics, Vice-Rector for Research of the University of Seville, Director of the National Centre for Accelerators in Spain, Director General for Research and Knowledge Transfer of the regional government of Andalucía, Spain, and Director of the Andalusian Knowledge Agency.

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