This guidebook describes the facilities, equipment and analytical methods required to determine the concentrations of various radionuclides in environmental materials and foodstuffs. The assessment of the dose equivalent to organs of the body resulting from the exposure to neutrons is one of the important problems of radiation protection. The practical measurement of neutrons presents special difficulties, giving rise to problems in the development of techniques of neutron monitoring, the design of monitoring instruments and the assessment of organ dose equivalents resulting from exposure to neutrons alone or to mixed radiation fields. The main sources of neutrons are sealed radionuclide sources, nuclear reactors and particle accelerators. Neutrons are encountered in the enrichment of fissile materials and in the processing of spent fuels.
Neutron sources are also widely used in medicine and industry.
Neutron monitoring is therefore a subject of increasing general interest. 600 Austrian Schillings Techniques for Identifying Transuranic Speciation in Aquatic Environments Panel Proceedings Series Proceedings of a Technical Committee meeting jointly organized by the IAEA and the Commission of the European Communities, Ispra, Italy, 24-28 March 1980. The report gives recommendations on methodology useful for carrying out reliable quantitative methods for the determination of selected radionuclides, including the collection, storage and preparation of samples for chemical and radiochemical analyses.