Accelerators

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Questions in this Category Are in the Following Subcategories:
•  Radiation fields
•  Radiation shielding
•  Induced radioactivity
•  Radiation damage
•  Instrumentation
•  Regulatory
•  Miscellaneous
Radiation fields
Q3759	–	TLD to determine accelerator dose
Q4511	–	Linac survey
Q5218	–	Unwanted neutron production in tungsten
Q5906	–	Linac Produced Photoneutrons
Q9892	–	Increasing radiation from a 241-Am source
Radiation shielding
Q2790	–	Shielding for linear accelerators
Q4131	–	IMRT shielding
Q5283	–	Electron beam
Q8043	–	Which form of iron provides better uniformity of mix for concrete?
Induced radioactivity
Q390	–	Can an accelerator therapy unit make materials radioactive?
Q599	–	Is radioactive soil a threat to health?
Q1927	–	Cyclotron component activation
Q4086	–	How are synthetic elements made?
Q7427	–	Concrete activation from Linac operation
Radiation damage
Q887	–	Photochromic radiation damage detectors
Q3172	–	Radiation damage to electronic equipment
Instrumentation
Q245	–	I need to compare sodium iodide and germanium detectors.
Q532	–	NaI detector shielding
Q533	–	NaI detector minimum detectable activity
Q666	–	Liquid scintillation counting
Q1013	–	What are the effects of temperature on the NaI(Tl) scintillator detectors?
Q1024	–	What Is the Effect of Dead Time on Results from a Geiger-Mueller Counter?
Q1509	–	How to convert cpm to curies
Q2429	–	Convert counts to dose
Q3781	–	Muon detector
Regulatory
Q1659	–	Standards
Q2902	–	ANSI Standard N13.49
Q4813	–	Financial liability of future decommissioning
Miscellaneous
Q944	–	Radiation safety at a particle accelerator
Q4886	–	Are nuclear events induced by lightning?
Q8626	–	Guidance for interlocks for table-top x-ray generating devices
Q9368	–	Controls for a DT neutron generator
Q9383	–	Production of titanium-44