NEW GENERATION RADIATION METERS DEVELOPED AT TAEA LABORATORIES
Öz
In past 30 years, research and development (R&D) activities on radiation monitoring and measuring instruments and their production have continuously been conducted in Nuclear Electronics Unit of Technology Development Department of Turkish Atomic Energy Authority. The gained skill and know-how in such activities are applied to develop prototypes, so new models of these radiation instruments are in market order to compete with new technology. In recent times, fully surface mount electronics components are used to minimize the dimensions of radiation measuring instruments. The usage of microcontroller enables reliable, stable measurement and display of low background dose rate fields and makes possible the evaluation of the measurement data through the user friendly menus. It can be stated that these new generation devices developed in TAEA have a broad range of features such as a large graphic LCD screen, wide and accurate measurement range with dynamic dead time correction subroutine, measurement recording feature, audible and visible alarm feature, GPS module, USB port for computer connection, rechargeable lithium battery charged from USB port and comprehensive menu options such as radiation measurement unit and language selection. As another feature, radiation dose rate values can be recorded to internal memory, manually or automatically. The records, can be transferred to the computer by using the Data Management System (VYS-250) computer software which developed by Nuclear Electronics Unit. Radiation levels with the GPS position information can be displayed on the real map when the internet access is provided. All these substantial improvements, enable these devices to compete with their superior features in terms of both software and hardware when compared to similar devices available in the market.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Metroloji,Uygulamalı ve Endüstriyel Fizik
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Necati Küçükarslan
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Türkiye
Nihat Batmaz
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Gökhan Sail
Türkiye
Serdar Yurtsever
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Hüdaver Kaplan
Bu kişi benim
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
26 Haziran 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
28 Şubat 2019
Kabul Tarihi
15 Mayıs 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 31 Sayı: 1