Prospects of Xenon Gamma Spectrometer Application as a Recording Device on Board of an Automated and Robotic Gamma-Ray Spectrometric Complex for the Decommissioning of Nuclear Physical Installations

The paper considers the structure of robotic gamma-spectrometric complexes for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. It presents physical and technical characteristics of xenon gamma-ray spectrometer considered a key instrument for gamma-ray spectra measurements of analyzed objects and their activity. The study demonstrated the feasibility of xenon gamma spectrometers application in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Remotely received information from a gamma spectrometric complex is transmitted via Internet to a remote computer enabling realtime processing of the experimental data.

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