Detecting potential contamination with radioactive materials is of great importance for personnel working in radioactive environments. Therefore, every nuclear center or laboratory that deals with radioactive materials must be equipped with a device for detecting radioactive substances. This device, generally known as a Hand, Foot, and Clothing Contamination Monitor, and commercially known as Hand Foot Clothing Monitor, Hand Foot Monitor, HFC Contamination Monitor, Hand and Shoe Monitor, or Hand Cuff and Foot Surface Contamination Monitor, plays a significant role in detecting surface contamination.
Contamination monitors are generally categorized into three types based on their usage environment:
- β and γ contamination monitors
- α and β contamination monitors
- α, β, and γ contamination monitors
The type of detector used in the device determines its application. The detectors used in devices manufactured by Pars Isotope Company are of the scintillator type, operating in the proportional region for detecting α and β contamination. The total number of detectors used in this device is four.
This device has wide-ranging applications due to its very high sensitivity to α and β radioactive materials:
Research reactors
Nuclear power plants
Uranium and fuel processing facilities
Uranium mines
Uranium enrichment facilities
Radioisotope production plants
Environmental monitoring laboratories
Nuclear research centers
Nuclear medicine centers
Features:
Background radiation subtraction algorithm for each detector
High sensitivity for detecting low-activity surface contamination
Capability to identify faulty detectors
Ability to individually plot the plateau for each detector and test each detector on the unit
Touch screen display
Visual alarms
Compliant with IEC 61098 standard requirements
Audio alarms in Persian and the capability to assign user-defined alarms
Ability to define custom user profiles using RFID identification cards
Access control capability based on contamination level using the unit’s output relay
Capability to store contamination check results, segregated by personnel, on external storage
Capability to send personnel contamination check results to a central computer (server) via TCP/IP protocol
Capability to print the contamination level of each detector
Easy installation and operation
