Natural Background Radiation Measurements of a Base Station in Yalvaç County

Year 2009, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 53 - 60, 01.04.2009

Halim Büyükuslu Abdullah Kaplan Gürcan Yıldırım

Abstract

In this framework, measurements have been carried out with a Geiger-Mueller LND712 detector, Radiation
Alert Monitor 4, calibrated by Cesium 137 (137Cs) every month during one year in order to detect natural
background radiation rate exposed by man around base station in Yalvaç. Measurements have been taken
in every day on condition of three times (in the morning, at noon and in the evening) during a year. Annual
arithmetic mean radiation dose changing from 1.92 to 2.27 mSv/year have been obtained and compared with
radiation dose limits of a body

Keywords

Natural background radiation, Geiger Mueller LND712, Base stations

Natural Background Radiation Measurements of a Base Station in Yalvaç County

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, Yalvaç’taki baz istasyonu civarında maruz kalınan doğal fon (background) radyasyon oranını tespit etmek için, bir yıl boyunca her ay, Sezyum-137 (137Cs) ile kalibre edilmiş Radiation Alert Monitor 4 Geiger-Mueller LND712 detektörü ile ölçümler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ölçümler, günde üç kez (sabah, öğle ve akşam) olmak koşuluyla her gün, bir yıl boyunca alınmıştır. Radyasyon dozunun yıllık aritmetik ortalaması değişimi 1.92 ile 2.27 mSv/yıl olarak elde edilmiş ve insan vücudunun radyasyon doz limitleri ile karşılaştırılmıştır

Keywords

Doğal fon (background) radyasyonu, Geiger Mueller LND712, Baz istasyonları

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