Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute

Nobuyuki Kanazawa

Hirohide Kobayashi

Kenji Izaki

Ichiro Hasegawa

Kazuo Ino

A ZnS (Ag) scintillation detector comprises a ZnS (Ag) scintillators layerwhich is excited by incident &#x3b1;-rays and emits a scintillator light, a photomultiplier tubewhich converts the scintillator light into an electric pulse signal, and a counting rate meterwhich counts the obtained pulse signal. The scintillator layer has a thickness which is not less than a range of &#x3b1;-rays from &#x3b1;-ray emitting nuclides (natural radioactive nuclides) to be separated, which enables energy absorption of &#x3b1;-rays from the &#x3b1;-ray emitting nuclides to be separated to entirely occur in the scintillator layer, and which enables light shielding of the scintillator light generated in the scintillator layer by the scintillator layer itself to be neglected. A pulse height discrimination circuitis further provided in a preceding stage of the counting rate meter. Thereby, the effect of the natural radioactive nuclides can be reduced and the contamination control can be efficiently and smoothly performed.

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Hitachi, Japan

Nobuyuki Kanazawa