Clearance assessment for building concrete through bulk in-situ -spectrometry (Contract research)

Maeda, Shingo*; Hirano, Takahiro*; Shimada, Taro ; Nakayama, Shinichi 

Bulk in-situ -spectroscopy is effective for a slightly and uniformly contaminated surface such as a room surrounded by concrete walls. The time-consuming scoping scanning survey for the entire surface is essential to ensure the slight and uniform contamination prior to the bulk in-situ measurement. However, the scoping scanning survey is omissible if the conservative procedure is acceptable. The count rate, cps, for the material of interest can be obtained by in-situ Ge detector will be converted to the radioactivity using conversion factor, Bq/cps, which depends on the distance from the detector to the furthest point. The radioactive concentration, Bq/g, is evaluated by dividing the radioactivity by the "measurement unit" of 100 kg. This procedure could certainly produce a conservative value. If the value obtained by this procedure is lower than the regulated clearance level, the material of interest can be cleared without the prior scoping scanning survey.