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NPL Environmental Radioactivity Proficiency Test Exercise 2011

The Environmental Radioactivity PTE 2011 is the seventeenth in a series of similar exercises to have been conducted by NPL.

Details of this exercise can be found on the invitation letter

All downloads are Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat PDF file PDF files, unless otherwise indicated.

The timetable for the exercise is as follows:

Order deadline - click to download order form Microsoft Word file

27 June 2011

Samples ready for dispatch

September / October 2011
Deadline for submission of results - click for reporting forms (MS Excel files):

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

6 January 2012
Post-comparison workshop - Agenda 22 March 2012
Sample Preparation and Data Treatment Chris Gilligan, NPL
Presentation of the Alpha Results Cyrus Larijani, NPL
Presentation of the Beta Results Chris Gilligan, NPL
Presentation of the Gamma Results Seán Collins, NPL
Presentation of the Sand Results Arvic Harms, NPL
New Products from ORTEC Shane Toal, ORTEC

Developments in Beta Emitting

Radionuclide Determination
Phil Warwick,
GAU-Radioanalytical

Review of Nuclear Industry PTEs

Waste Drum PTE 2007-2011
Julian Dean, NPL
Decommissioning Workshop and CRM Working Group meeting Julian Dean, NPL
PTE2012 Chris Gilligan, NPL
Summary and close of workshop Arvic Harms, NPL
NPL Report IR 27 issued July 2012


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Last Updated: 11 Jul 2012
Created: 23 May 2011