Study of safety performance of the 241Am fire alarm source

Study of safety performance of the ²⁴¹Am fire alarm source

FENG Gen-Sheng

Nuclear Science and Techniques

pp.34-40

Published in print 01 Feb 2000

CLC：TL929

37201

The safety performance of ²⁴¹Am fire alarm sources made by using powder metallurgical technology has been preliminarily studied, so as to determine an allowable maximum energy limit value of the alpha particles outgoing from this kind of sources in light of radiation safety and the present technology. The yielded results show that ²⁴¹Am leak has not been found when the peak energy of the alpha energy spectrum of this kind of sources is less than 4.96 MeV.

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