In this study,an online detector system based on plastic scintillators is designed to monitor the activity of tritiated water in the liquid effluents of nuclear power plants.The feasibility of the detector is verified...In this study,an online detector system based on plastic scintillators is designed to monitor the activity of tritiated water in the liquid effluents of nuclear power plants.The feasibility of the detector is verified via simulation on Geant4,and the optimal detector structure size is determined.A back-end electronics system is designed and an experimental measurement platform forβ-rays based on a ^(40)KCl solution is constructed.Thirteen ^(40)KC solutions with different activities ranging from 10 to4500 Bq/L are measured,and 1300 V is determined as the optimal operating high voltage of the photomultiplier tubes.A linear fit is performed in 10-min counts,and the maximum linear goodness of fit(R^(2))achieved is 0.9992.Long-term stability measurements are performed for two detectors,one filled with air and the other with a ^(40)KCl solution exhibiting an activity of 2000 Bq/L.The relative deviation of the counts of the detector system every 10 min is 0.998%when the ^(40)KCl solution is used,and the maximum Gaussian R^(2) of the counts is 0.9849.展开更多
Currently,the liquid scintillation method is widely used to measure the activity of tritiated water in the primary circuit of nuclear power plants,which leads to the continuous production of radioactive waste during m...Currently,the liquid scintillation method is widely used to measure the activity of tritiated water in the primary circuit of nuclear power plants,which leads to the continuous production of radioactive waste during measurement.In addition,the real-time activity information of tritiated water cannot be obtained.To solve this problem,herein we present an online tritiated water measurement method based on plastic scintillators that used the optical transport process in the Geant 4 software toolkit to build a model of plastic scintillation detection for tritiated water.Through simulation,the basic geometric dimensions of the detector were determined.In this dimension,using one detector to measure for 3 h,when the tritiated water activity was 100 Bq/L,its resolution was 16%(16 Bq/L).In addition,calculations were performed for the presence of other background signals to obtain the minimum detectable concentration.展开更多
The activity of tritiated water has been standardized by two liquid scintillation counting methods:The CIEMAT/NIST method with the54Mn-standard efficiency tracing and the triple-to-double coincidence ratio(TDCR)method...The activity of tritiated water has been standardized by two liquid scintillation counting methods:The CIEMAT/NIST method with the54Mn-standard efficiency tracing and the triple-to-double coincidence ratio(TDCR)method.The samples were prepared with Ultima Gold TM AB liquid scintillation cocktail in low-potassium glass vials.In the application of the CIEMAT/NIST method,the computer program EMILIA was used to calculate the efficiency of3H and54Mn according to the KL1L2L3M atomic rearrangement model.And the detection efficiency of the TDCR counter was calculated using TDCR07 code,which makes it possible to allow for the potential asymmetry between the three photomultiplier tubes.The influence of stopping power and k B factor is discussed in the paper.When a power approach is adopted for the stopping power for electrons below 1ke V and k B is chosen to be 0.0075 cm/Me V,the relative deviation will be only 0.3%between the two methods.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12105029)。
文摘In this study,an online detector system based on plastic scintillators is designed to monitor the activity of tritiated water in the liquid effluents of nuclear power plants.The feasibility of the detector is verified via simulation on Geant4,and the optimal detector structure size is determined.A back-end electronics system is designed and an experimental measurement platform forβ-rays based on a ^(40)KCl solution is constructed.Thirteen ^(40)KC solutions with different activities ranging from 10 to4500 Bq/L are measured,and 1300 V is determined as the optimal operating high voltage of the photomultiplier tubes.A linear fit is performed in 10-min counts,and the maximum linear goodness of fit(R^(2))achieved is 0.9992.Long-term stability measurements are performed for two detectors,one filled with air and the other with a ^(40)KCl solution exhibiting an activity of 2000 Bq/L.The relative deviation of the counts of the detector system every 10 min is 0.998%when the ^(40)KCl solution is used,and the maximum Gaussian R^(2) of the counts is 0.9849.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12105029)。
文摘Currently,the liquid scintillation method is widely used to measure the activity of tritiated water in the primary circuit of nuclear power plants,which leads to the continuous production of radioactive waste during measurement.In addition,the real-time activity information of tritiated water cannot be obtained.To solve this problem,herein we present an online tritiated water measurement method based on plastic scintillators that used the optical transport process in the Geant 4 software toolkit to build a model of plastic scintillation detection for tritiated water.Through simulation,the basic geometric dimensions of the detector were determined.In this dimension,using one detector to measure for 3 h,when the tritiated water activity was 100 Bq/L,its resolution was 16%(16 Bq/L).In addition,calculations were performed for the presence of other background signals to obtain the minimum detectable concentration.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.91126002 and 11405071)the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(Grant No.2012ZX06004-005)
文摘The activity of tritiated water has been standardized by two liquid scintillation counting methods:The CIEMAT/NIST method with the54Mn-standard efficiency tracing and the triple-to-double coincidence ratio(TDCR)method.The samples were prepared with Ultima Gold TM AB liquid scintillation cocktail in low-potassium glass vials.In the application of the CIEMAT/NIST method,the computer program EMILIA was used to calculate the efficiency of3H and54Mn according to the KL1L2L3M atomic rearrangement model.And the detection efficiency of the TDCR counter was calculated using TDCR07 code,which makes it possible to allow for the potential asymmetry between the three photomultiplier tubes.The influence of stopping power and k B factor is discussed in the paper.When a power approach is adopted for the stopping power for electrons below 1ke V and k B is chosen to be 0.0075 cm/Me V,the relative deviation will be only 0.3%between the two methods.
