Issue |
Int. J. Metrol. Qual. Eng.
Volume 5, Number 3, 2014
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Article Number | 301 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ijmqe/2014010 | |
Published online | 03 November 2014 |
Ionising radiation metrology for the metallurgical industry
1 CIEMAT – Laboratorio de Metrología de
Radiaciones Ionizantes, Avda.
Complutense 40, 28040
Madrid,
Spain
2 EC-JRC-IRMM – European Commission,
Joint Research Centre, Institute for Reference Materials and
Measurements, 2440
Geel,
Belgium
3 PTB – Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, 38116
Braunschweig,
Germany
4 CM – Cesky Metrologicky
Institut, Brno,
Czech Republic
5 SMU – Slovenský Metrologický
Ústav, Bratislava,
Slovakia
6 ENEA – Istituto Nazionale di
Metrologia delle Radiazioni Ionizzanti, Rome, Italy
7 ENVINET – shareholding
company, Trebic,
Czech Republic
⋆ Correspondence:
e.garciatorano@ciemat.es
Received:
25
February
2014
Accepted:
24
April
2014
Every year millions tons of steel are produced worldwide from recycled scrap loads. Although the detection systems in the steelworks prevent most orphan radioactive sources from entering the furnace, there is still the possibility of accidentally melting a radioactive source. The MetroMetal project, carried out in the frame of the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP), addresses this problem by studying the existing measurement systems, developing sets of reference sources in various matrices (cast steel, slag, fume dust) and proposing new detection instruments. This paper presents the key lines of the project and describes the preparation of radioactive sources as well as the intercomparison exercises used to test the calibration and correction methods proposed within the project.
Key words: Ionising radiation measurements / interlaboratory comparisons / EURAMET / EMRP
© EDP Sciences 2014
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