THE COMBINED USE OF BUBBLE DOSIMETERS AND ELECTROCHEMICALLY ETCHED TRACK DETECTORS

The use of polycarbonate bottles as track detectors makes it possible to overcome some of the shortcomings of the electrochemically etched d osemeters such as the complexity of the etching apparatus, the strong angular dependence, and the difficulty of measuring the neutron incide nt angle. Because of its shape, the bottle provides a dosemeter with i sotropic response and separates electrically the two etching electroly tes, as required for the electrochemical etching processes. Since the polycarbonate bottles are used typically as containers of bubble detec tors, a detector combination is thus achieved, which can be used to go od advantage to solve the complex problem of personal neutron monitori ng.