Activity determination of the Am-241 sources from radioactive lightning rods
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2009
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INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR ATLANTIC CONFERENCE; MEETING ON NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS, 9th; MEETING ON REACTOR PHYSICS AND THERMAL HYDRAULICS, 16th; MEETING ON NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, 1st
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The authorization for manufacture commerce and installation of radioactive lightning rods, in Brazil, was lifted
in 1989 by the National Nuclear Energy Commission – CNEN (Resolution no
4/89). Since this date, these
devices have been replaced and have been sent to the Institutes subordinated to the CNEN, amongst them the
Nuclear and Energy Research Institute – IPEN-CNEN/SP. Radioactive Waste Management Laboratory –
RWML of the IPEN - CNEN/SP had received, approximately, 16,000 units up to the end of 2008. The
radioactive lightning rod is constituted in its majority, for a central metallic rod, where two or three metallic
plates are mounted. In these plates, on average, six Am-241 sources are fixed. The process used for the
radioactive lightning rods treatment is the dismantling of the device and the withdrawal of the sources from the
metallic plates. The activity values of the lightning rods sources, supplied by the manufacturers, vary from two
to three orders of magnitude and therefore it is necessary to characterize these sources. This paper describes the
methodology used to measure the actual activity of each Am-241 sources extracted from the radioactive
lightning rods. The first step was to sample tens of Am-241 sources and carry out the activity measurements for
further use in the system calibration. The equipment used in this first stage was a gamma spectrometer,
previously calibrated with an Am-241 standard source, in agreement with the same arrangement and same
geometry in the measures of the sources. Results show that there are sources with similar activity values of those
supplied by the manufacturers, but there are also sources with no activity – or also activity very low compared
with the expected value –, as well as sources contend other radionuclides.
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MINEMATSU, DENISE; DELLAMANO, JOSE C.; FERREIRA, ROBSON de J. Activity determination of the Am-241 sources from radioactive lightning rods. In: INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR ATLANTIC CONFERENCE; MEETING ON NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS, 9th; MEETING ON REACTOR PHYSICS AND THERMAL HYDRAULICS, 16th; MEETING ON NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, 1st, September 27 - October 2, 2009, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Proceedings... Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/16519. Acesso em: 27 Mar 2026.
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