Russian Federation
The history and current state of CORAD method for non-destructive measurement of soil and concrete contamination characteristics by collimated spectrometric detectors with minimal assumptions about the spatial contamination distribution are considered.
radioactive contamination of soil, concrete, gamma spectrometry, on-site measurements
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