Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors are a new class of radiation equipment which combines advantages of the family of the highly sensitive Personal Radiation Detectors (PRDs) and the family of the Radionuclide Identification Devices (RIDs). The main purpose of the Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors (SPRDs) is not only to search for radioactive and nuclear grade materials, but also eliminate nuisance alarms and evaluate a potential threat of the discovered radiation source to public by the isotope identification. This is the major distinction of the SPRDs from the conventional PRDs.
The Polimaster’s SPRDs are capable of distinguishing among naturally occurring radiation materials (NORM), medical isotopes, and industrial sources of radiation. All these materials are considered to be potentially dangerous to the general population. The SPRDs are also capable of distinguishing inherently dangerous radiation sources, such as weapon-grade nuclear materials.
The outstanding feature of the Polimaster’s Spectroscopic Personal Radiation Detectors is their ability to be incorporated into the network. All devices are capable of real-time data exchange with remote Unified Command Center (UCC) in order to provide up-to-date radiological information and help the user in the field to make qualified decision when handling radiological incident. The data exchange includes but not limited to GPS location of the instrument, dose rate, accumulated spectra, time and ambient temperature.
The server based software named Polimaster Nuclear Protection Network (NPNET™) is available to experts at UCC. Through the NPNET, experts can obtain on-line information about dose rates, gamma scintillation spectra, detected and identified isotopes, instruments’ GPS locations, live mapping of the area and monitoring of the radiation levels for the whole area of surveillance.
