NPL Environmental Radioactivity Proficiency Test Exercise 2009 : Collaboration : Radioactivity : Ionising Radiation : Science + Technology : National Physical Laboratory

NPL Environmental Radioactivity Proficiency Test Exercise 2009

The Environmental Radioactivity PTE 2009 is the fifteenth in a series of similar exercises to have been conducted by NPL.

All downloads are PDF files, unless otherwise stated.

Details of this exercise can be found on the invitation letter

The timetable for the exercise is as follows:

Order deadline - click to download order form: PDF \| MS Word	1 May 2009
Samples ready for dispatch - click to download additional information	September 2009
Deadline for submission of results - click for reporting forms (MS Excel files): AH \| AL \| B1 \| B2 \| GH \| GL \| S	1 December 2009
Post-comparison workshop - Agenda	20 January 2010
Sample Preparation	Chris Gilligan, NPL
Data Treatment	Arvic Harms, NPL
Presentation of the Alpha Results	Chris Gilligan, NPL
Presentation of the Beta 1 Results	Arvic Harms, NPL
Presentation of the Beta 2 Results	Chris Gilligan, NPL
Presentation of the Gamma Results	Arvic Harms, NPL
Presentation of the Sand Results	Arvic Harms, NPL
HADES, Low Level Gamma Spectrometry	Erica Andreotti, IRMM
Waste Drum PTE update	Julian Dean, NPL
Automated Radiochemistry System	James Harvey, NorthStar
Discussion of the next exercise: PTE2010	Chris Gilligan, NPL
Production of 236Pu of Suitable Purity	Simon Jerome, NPL
Summary and close of workshop	Arvic Harms, NPL
Final report issued	April 2010