Dose intercomparison studies for 60Co gamma-ray and electron beam irradiation in the year 2002

摘要

Dose inter-comparison studies for 60Co γ-ray and 10MeV electron beam irradiation were carried out from July to October in 2002. The purpose of the studies was to check the reliability of the alanine-PE film dosimeters made by CIAE, which will be used as transfer standard dosimetry system mainly for electron beam irradiation.The expanded uncertainty of CIAE alanine/EPR dosimetry system was 4.1% for doses not higher than 10 kGy and 5.4% for those above 10 kGy (k=2). CIAE alanine-PE film dosimeters were sent to JAERI, RISO (National Laboratory in Denmark) and INCT respectively, which were irradiated by 60Co gamma-rays or electron beams in each laboratory. The irradiated dosimeters were then sent back to CIAE for electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) analysis.The agreements were obtained to be ±1.9% for gamma-ray dose measurement and ±4.3% for electron beam dose measurement, which were all within the combined uncertainty of the reference and CIAE alanine/EPR dosimetry system. Furthermore, the overall mean ratio was found to be 0.995 with 1.8% in the coefficient of variation (CV). The preliminary inter-comparison studies indicated that CIAE film alanine/EPR dosimetry system had the potential to be used as a transfer dosimetry system for high dose measurement.