Discipline C: Radiochemistry, Analytical Track 1: Food Defense

项目摘要/摘要-跟踪1 该项目的首要目标是支持科罗拉多州的粮食防御工作， 建立一个能够监测人体的放射分析测量实验室， 放射性污染物的动物食品。该实验室将 在科罗拉多农业部（CDA）的支持下建立，该部门将 提供将在本实验室进行分析的动物食品样本。最少20- 每年将对CDA提供的5个动物食品样本进行伽马辐射分析， 放射性同位素使用高纯度锗和碘化钠探测器已经在 科罗拉多州立大学健康物理学项目。合适的实验室空间将 将建立所需的质量保证和控制系统 以确保结果的准确性。

Project Summary/Abstract – Track1 The overarching aim of this project is to support food defense efforts in the State of Colorado by establishing a radioanalytical measurements laboratory capable of monitoring human and animal food products for gamma-emitting radioactive contaminants. This laboratory will be established with the support from the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA), which will provide the animal food samples that will be analyzed in this laboratory. A minimum of twenty- five animal food samples per year provided by the CDA will be analyzed for gamma-emitting radioisotopes using high-purity germanium and sodium iodide detectors already available in the Health Physics program at Colorado State University. Suitable laboratory space will be dedicated to this effort and the required quality assurance and control system will be established to ensure accuracy of the results.