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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2022.16.4.373

Evaluation of Spatial Dose Rate in Working Environment during Non-Destructive Testing using Radioactive Isotopes  

Cho, Yong-In (Department of Radiological Science, College of Health Sciences Catholic University of Pusan)
Kim, Jung-Hoon (Department of Radiological Science, College of Health Sciences Catholic University of Pusan)
Bae, Sang-Il (Department of Radiation Oncology, Dongnam Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences Cancer Center)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.16, no.4, 2022 , pp. 373-379 More about this Journal
Abstract
The radiation source used for non-destructive testing have permeability and cause a scattered radiation through collisions of surrounding materials, which causes changes in the surrounding spatial dose. Therefore, this study attempted to evaluate and analyze the distribution of spatial dose by source in the working environment during the non-destructive test using monte carlo simulation. In this study, Using FLUKA, a simulation code, simulates 60Co, 192Ir, and 75Se source used in non-destructive testing, The reliability of the source term was secured by comparing the calculated dose rate with the data of the Health and Physics Association. After that, a non-destructive test in the radiation safety facility(RT-room) was designed to evaluate the spatial dose according to the distance from the source. As a result of the spatial dose evaluation, 75Se source showed the lowest dose distribution in the frontal position and 60Co source showed a dose rate of about 15 times higher than that of 75Se and about 2 times higher than that of 192Ir. In addition, the spatial dose according to the distance tends to decrease according to the distance inverse square law as the distance from the source increases. Exceptionally, 60Co, 192Ir, and 75Se sources confirmed a slight increase within 2 m of position. Based on the results of this study, it is believed that it will be used as supplementary data for safety management of workers in radiation safety facilities during non-destructive testing using radioactive isotopes.
Keywords
Non-destructive testing; Radioactive isotope; Spatial dose rate; Monte carlo simulation;
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