Quality assurance methods and procedures used to verify consistency in calculating dose coefficients.

Abstract:

:The development of a spallation neutron source with a mercury target will lead to the production of rare radionuclides. The dose coefficients for many of these radionuclides have not yet been published. A collaboration of universities and national labs has taken on the task of calculating dose coefficients for the rare radionuclides using the software package DCAL. The working group developed a procedure for calculating dose coefficients and a quality assurance (QA) program to verify the calculations completed. The first portion of this QA program was to verify that each participating group could independently reproduce the dose coefficients for a known set of radionuclides. The second effort was to divide the group of rare radionuclides among the independent participants in a manner that assured that each radionuclide would be redundantly and independently calculated, and the results subsequently be submitted for publication in a separate manuscript. The final aspect of this program was to resolve any discrepancies arising among the participants as a group. The output of the various software programs for six QA radionuclides, 144Nd, 201Au, 50V, 61Co, 41Ar, and 38S were compared among all members of the working group. Initially, a few differences in outputs were identified. This exercise identified weaknesses in the procedure, which has since been revised. After the revisions, dose coefficients were calculated and compared to published dose coefficients with good agreement. The present efforts involve generating dose coefficients for the rare radionuclides anticipated to be produced from the spallation neutron source should a mercury target be employed.

journal_name

Health Phys

journal_title

Health physics

authors

Arndt A,Shanahan J,Gold C,Brey R,Gesell T,Patton P,Rudin M,Eckerman K,Rusetski V,Pagava S

doi

10.1097/01.hp.0000176545.97510.66

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-01-01 00:00:00

pages

74-80

issue

1

eissn

0017-9078

issn

1538-5159

pii

00004032-200601000-00010

journal_volume

90

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