{"id":527,"date":"2020-04-12T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/?page_id=527"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T19:21:28","slug":"alpha-induced","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/alpha-induced\/","title":{"rendered":"Long range scanning based detection of alpha\u2013induced air fluorescence even under daylight conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: NNL-NDA, \u00a386k, 2015\u20132019<\/p>\n<p>Investigators: Professor C J Taylor, Dr K Gamage (Glasgow University)<\/p>\n<p>Alpha radiation detection is time consuming and hazardous to carry out due to the short range of alpha particles in air. This project will investigate novel detection methods based on alpha-induced air fluorescence. These methods will be used in a nuclear decommissioning context to detect plutonium contaminated materials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/absorption-detector-1024x902.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram of photon detector\" width=\"660\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/absorption-detector-1024x902.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/absorption-detector-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/absorption-detector-768x676.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/files\/2020\/04\/absorption-detector.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding: NNL-NDA, \u00a386k, 2015\u20132019 Investigators: Professor C J Taylor, Dr K Gamage (Glasgow University) Alpha radiation detection is time consuming and hazardous to carry out due to the short range of alpha particles in air. This project will investigate novel detection methods based on alpha-induced air fluorescence. These methods will be used in a nuclear &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/funding\/alpha-induced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long range scanning based detection of alpha\u2013induced air fluorescence even under daylight conditions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":866,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-527","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527\/revisions\/663"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/cjtaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}