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NPL Environmental Radioactivity Proficiency Test Exercise 2010

The Environmental Radioactivity PTE 2010 is the sixteenth in a series of similar exercises to have been conducted by NPL.

The timetable for the exercise is as follows:

Order deadline - click to download order form: PDF | MS Word

1 June 2010

Samples ready for dispatch

September 2010

Deadline for submission of results - click for reporting forms (MS Excel files):

AH    |    AL    |    B1    |    B2    |    GH    |    GL    |    P    |    S

1 December 2010

Post-comparison workshop - Agenda

9 February 2011
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
Standardisation of Plutonium-241 Lena Johansson
Presentation of the Plutonium Results Chris Gilligan, NPL
Waste Drum PTE update Julian Dean, NPL
Discussion of the next exercise: PTE2011 Chris Gilligan, NPL
Production of 236Np Simon Jerome, NPL
Summary and close of workshop Arvic Harms, NPL
Final report issued January 2011


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