Development of a plutonium air monitor for emergency environmental monitoring

Kinouchi, Nobuyuki; Oishi, Tetsuya; Noguchi, Hiroshi; Yoshida, Makoto; Kato, Shohei; Ito, Katsuhito*

Radioisotopes, 51(2), p.71 - 77, 2002/02

https://doi.org/10.3769/radioisotopes.51.71

We have developed an air monitor which is possible to measure rapidly and sensitively the concentration of plutonium for the environmental monitoring at an accident of a nuclear reprocessing plant. The monitor is designed to collect airborne plutonium by drawing the ambient air through a filter and to detect the activity by alpha spectroscopy. The following two methods are equipped with the monitor: continuous measurement at atomospheric pressure and batch measurement at vacuum. The description of the air monitor and the results of performance test are reported.