Dose Reconstruction After a WD‒XRF Spectrometer Accident Using Minute-Rate TLD Measurements
Yiying Gao, Haoyu Wang, Ling He, Liangguo He, Wantian Wang, Linyu Li, Yurou Zhang, Yuxing Xue, Shuyu Zhang, Deming Liu · 2026
Read Dose Reconstruction After a WD‒XRF Spectrometer Accident Using Minute-Rate TLD Measurements by Yiying Gao, Haoyu Wang, Ling He, Liangguo He, Wantian Wang, Linyu Li, Yurou Zhang, Yuxing Xue, Shuyu Zhang, Deming Liu (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13396542.txt.
Description
Yiying Gao and co-authors rebuilt the radiation dose from a lab accident after the fact, using small dosimeter chips read minute by minute. Their 2026 study reconstructs an incident with a wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, a machine that identifies elements in samples, where no personal dose records existed.
The team replayed the event: dosimeters were placed at seven spots matching head and hand positions, and the machine ran at its recorded settings of 40 kilovolts and 7 milliamps. Minute-level dose rates at each spot were combined with estimates of how long each body part stayed there. The method offers a template for the many accidents where nobody wore a meter.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yiying Gao, Haoyu Wang, Ling He, Liangguo He, Wantian Wang, Linyu Li, Yurou Zhang, Yuxing Xue, Shuyu Zhang, Deming Liu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23478 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |