BetaScint, Inc.

Address:
415 North Quay
Kennewick, Washington 99336 United States

Phone: (509) 735-7407   Toll Free:    Fax: (509) 735-3773

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Website: picturethis.pnl.gov    

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BetaScint appears to have gone out of business in 2005. The BetaScintTM fiber-optic sensor was a rapid less-costly alternative for measuring Sr-90 or U-238 contamination in soil samples on site. The BetaScintTM sensor contained plastic fibers doped with fluorescent compounds. These one-millimeter-thick fibers lit up (i.e., scintillate) when they contacted highly energized beta particles produced by radionuclides. The intensity of the light was counted by photo-detectors to determine the beta radioactivity of the soil sample. When background counts were subtracted, the number of scintillations counted in a given time was proportional to the average beta radioactivity of the soil sample.

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Comments: Company is no longer in business.

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