Author: Jeff Sandeman

In this instalment of the Health Physics (HP) Corner, Jeff explores dead time—the period after the recording of a particle or pulse when a detector is unable to record another.

For years, the Health Physics (HP) Corner was a regular feature in the CRPA Bulletin. It drifted away in 2017, but we are very excited to see it resurrected by Jeff Sandeman!. In this first installment, Jeff carries on from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) licensee outreach presentation on contamination monitoring and runs through some verification calculations and examples.