Abstract A small, vibration — and shock-resistant thermoluminescent dosemeter /TLD/ system — named PILLE — was developed at the Health Physics Department of the Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest, to measure the cosmic radiation dose on board orbital stations. The first on-board measurements with this system were performed /by B. Farkas, the Hungarian astronaut/, on the Salyut-6 space station in 1980. The same instrument was used by other crews in the following years. Doses measured at different sites in Salyut-6 are presented. The dose rates varied from 0.07 to 0.11 mGy.day−1. After the first cosmic measurements, the system was further developed. The minimum detectable dose of the new TLD system is 1 μGy, i.e. less by one order of magnitude than that of the former system. The self-irradiation dose rate of the TLD bulbs is also reduced — by more than one order of magnitude — to 10 nGy.h−1, by the use of potassium-free glass for the bulb envelope. This new type of PILLE TLD system is currently on-board Salyut-7. The dose rates /0.12 — 0.23 mGy.day−1/ measured in 1983 are presented in detail.


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    Title :

    Thermoluminescent dose measurements on-board Salyut type orbital stations


    Contributors:
    Akatov, Yu.A. (author) / Arkhangelsky, V.V. (author) / Aleksandrov, A.P. (author) / Fehér, I. (author) / Deme, S. (author) / Szabó, B. (author) / Vágyölgyi, J. (author) / Szabó, P.P. (author) / Csőke, A. (author) / Ránky, M. (author)

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    Publication date :

    1984-01-01


    Size :

    5 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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