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EARTHQUAKE ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 183-190.

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Preliminary Study on the Traceability of the Observation and Measurement of Radon for Earthquake Monitoring

HUANG Ren-gui1,2,4, ZHAO Ying1,2, LI Yu-ze1,2, WANG Shi-xian3, LUO Qi-bin4, XIAO Jian1,2   

  1. 1.Earthquake Administration of Jiangxi, Nanchang 330039, China;
    2.Radon detectors for seismic monitoring detection platform, Jiangxi Nanchang 330039, China;
    3.Earthquake Administration of Anhui, Hefei 230000, China;
    4.East China Institute of Technology, Jiangxi Nanchang 330013, China
  • Received:2018-05-10 Online:2019-04-30 Published:2019-08-09

Abstract: In this paper, the reliability of calibrating radon observation instruments using standard instruments is verified on the experimental results of radon chamber calibration and solid radon source calibration. The AlphaGUARD P2000Pro and AlphaGUARD P2000F radon measuring instrument of German Genitron Company, the classic measuring and transmitting instrument of radon measurement laboratory, are used as the source traceability instrument for the transmission source. The observation of water radon in Jiujiang Seismological Station FD-125 radon thorium chamber is calibrated by three calibration methods, including radon chamber calibration, solid radon source calibration and instrument calibration. The calibration of standard instruments and calibration of solid radon gas sources indicates that the deviation of the K value relative to the radon chamber calibration results is less than 6%, and they can meet the needs of the current radon observation and measurement. It can achieve the goal of unification with the national radon calibration scale.

Key words: Radon observation, Radon solid source calibration, Radon chamber calibration, Alpha GUARD measuring system

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