https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610606005
The EWGRD Round Robin Measurement Exercise
1 AMEC, Clean Energy – Europe, Gloucester, UK
2 SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium
3 C2TN and LEN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
4 CEA, Cadarache, France
5 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
6 RCŘ, Řež, Czech Republic
7 NRG, Petten, The Netherlands
8 CEA, Valduc, France
9 VTT, Finland
a Corresponding author: dean.thornton@amec.com
Published online: 3 February 2016
This paper presents the results of a round robin exercise carried out to compare specific activity measurements performed by eight European organisations on a set of ten neutron activation detectors containing the radio-nuclides 110mAg, 60Co, 54Mn, 46Sc and 94Nb. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the level of consistency between the participating organisations in blind tests of measurements relevant to reactor metrology. The samples used were selected from a stock of pre-existing irradiated material held at SCK•CEN. Taking turns over a period of approximately 9 months, the participating organisations received the samples, measured them and provided their results to an independent referee who collated and compared the data. The inter-comparison has demonstrated good agreement between the participants with standard deviations for each dosimeter varying between 1.6% and 3.1%. The paper provides results of the EWGRD Round Robin in an anonymised form together with discussion and conclusions which may be drawn from the exercise.
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