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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on September 5, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncm095
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ACHIEVEMENTS IN WORKPLACE NEUTRON DOSIMETRY IN THE LAST DECADE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EVIDOS PROJECT

R. J. Tanner1,*, T. Bolognese-Milsztajn2, M. Boschung3, M. Coeck4, G. Curzio5, F. d'Errico5, A. Fiechtner3, J-E. Lillhök6, V. Lacoste2, L. Lindborg6, M. Luszik-Bhadra7, M. Reginatto7, H. Schuhmacher7 and F. Vanhavere4

1 Radiation Protection Division, Health Protection Agency, Chilton, Didcot OX11 0RQ, UK
2 Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, F-92265 Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
3 Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
4 Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie-Centre d'étude de l'énergie nucléaire, B-2400 Mol, Belgium
5 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Nucleare e della Produzione, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
6 Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, SE-171 16 Stockholm, Sweden
7 Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany

* Corresponding author: rick.tanner{at}hpa-rp.org.uk

The availability of active neutron personal dosemeters has made real time monitoring of neutron doses possible. This has obvious benefits, but is only of any real assistance if the dose assessments made are of sufficient accuracy and reliability. Preliminary assessments of the performance of active neutron dosemeters can be made in calibration facilities, but these can never replicate the conditions under which the dosemeter is used in the workplace. Consequently, it is necessary to assess their performance in the workplace, which requires the field in the workplace to be fully characterised in terms of the energy and direction dependence of the fluence. This paper presents an overview of developments in workplace neutron dosimetry but concentrates on the outcomes of the EVIDOS project, which has made significant advances in the characterisation of workplace fields and the analysis of dosemeter responses in those fields.


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