Monitoring for Ionising Radiation

Rules of thumbs, frequently asked questions, techniques, hints and tips to consider when monitoring ionising radiation

  • Use Counts per Second (CPS) to find it, and Dose Rate to define it

    Published: Sept 29, 2021

    Source: Ionactive Radiation Protection Resource

      Tags:
    • CPS
    • Counter per second
    • Dose Rate
    • Micro Sv/h
    • Radiation monitoring technique

    Don't get too hung up on the labels  / titles applied to radiation monitoring equipment. A CPS (counts per second monitor) might be used for measurement of contamination, and might be labelled a contamination monitor, but it has other uses. 

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Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution

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