ISO-CART-85 Mobile Assay System
- Measures all common geometries: pipes, cylinders, floors, ceilings, walls, drums, boxes, and soils
- Easy-roll cart for maneuvering over any surface
- Wide selection of collimators and shields available for different measurement situations
- Continuous height adjustment and variable tilt adjustment
- ISOTOPIC software, proven results on thousands of real-world samples
- Factory pre-calibrated or calibrate with a single inexpensive mixed isotope point source
- Flexible reporting: measurement results can be reported in grams or activity (Bq or Ci)
ISO-CART-85 is a mobile system for radioactive waste assay by high-resolution gamma spectroscopy. Through the use of a single very-large-area high purity germanium (HPGe) detector, and a modular collimation system, ISO-CART-85 achieves, in many cases, free release levels in reasonable count times, for in-field measurements. The HPGe detector is provided in the form of the ORTEC IDM-200-V, a revolutionary all-in-one integrated Gamma Spectrometer, which requires no liquid nitrogen to cool to operational temperature. Instead, a miniature Stirling cycle cryo-cooler is employed. An internal battery powers the cooler and the highly stable digital signal processing electronics for up to 3 hours or longer with battery life extending options or battery hot swap.
The new ISO-CART-II which is the measurement system transport represents the latest generation of ISO-CART from ORTEC, enhanced through operational experience, and with some new options, such as the useful bottle-counting shield option which allows the system to be used as an “in-field counting room” to count bulk assay samples on the face of the HPGe detector. The tried-and-tested ISOPLUS software, in its latest version now offers 64-bit compatibility with the latest Windows operating systems.
ISOTOPIC Gamma Spectrometry Waste Assay Measurement
ISOTOPIC provides a practical solution to a wide range of gamma-ray radiation measurement problems encountered in site characterization and waste container measurements. The easy-to-use software is based on work done originally at several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites in the analysis of thousands of fissile waste containers and in methods developed at the U.S.
Energy Measurements Laboratory (EML-NYC) for measuring wide-area contamination of soils and surfaces. ISOTOPIC operates under the latest 64-bit operating systems, and supports the vast majority of ORTEC spectroscopy hardware offerings. In particular, ISOTOPIC forms the software element of the exciting ISO-CART-85 mobile low level waste assay system. ISOTOPIC places emphasis on practicality, flexibility and defendability of results through the use of traceable calibrations.