| Time | Item or Presentation | Presenting Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | Exhibitor Set-up (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 08:45 | Registration Opens (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 09:20 | LSC2024 Opens. Welcome Talk (Main Auditorium, Action Stations). | ||
| Session 1: Low-level Liquid Scintillation Counting for Tritium Analysis | Chair: Phillip Warwick | ||
| 09:35 | Comparison of liquid scintillation counters for H-3 routine measurements in water for environmental monitoring | Emilie Baudat | Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France |
| 09:55 | Hidex ULLA ultra low background LSC performance for H-3 in water | Juvonen, Risto | Hidex, Finland |
| 10:15 | Tritium behavior from vine to wine | Irina Vagner | National R&D Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies – ICSI, Romania |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 11:00 | Linearity Test of Liquid Scintillation Counters for Evaluating of Ultra-low-level Concentration of Tritium | Jin-goo Kang | KINS (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Korea |
| 11:20 | Enrichment of tritium in water using Polymer Electrolyte Membrane-Water Electrolysis | Hyuncheol Kim | Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea |
| 11:40 | Evaluating the Performance of Hidex ULLA Liquid Scintillation Counter for Tritium Abundance Measurements in Environmental Water Samples at IAEA – Isotope Hydrology Laboratory. | Lorenzo Copia | International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria |
| 12:00 | Lunch (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| Session 2: Scintillation Based Methods for Environmental Applications | Chair: Steffen Happel | ||
| 13:00 | Plenary Talk - Application of LSC in environmental radioactivity investigation and characterization of radioactive waste | Xiaolin Hou | Lanzhou University, China |
| 13:30 | Optimization of treatment procedure for the determination of atmospheric carbon-14 activity by liquid scintillation measurements | Hugo Jaegler | Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France |
| 13:50 | LSC measurement strategy during nuclear incidents | Siebren van Tuinen | Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), The Netherlands |
| 14:10 | Biogenic carbon measurement from solid recovered fuels | Ari Lehmusvuori | Hidex, Finland |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 14:55 | Plenary Talk - Application of LSC techniques for drinking water monitoring | Stanislaw Chalupnik | Silesian Centre for Environmental Radioactivity, Central Mining Institute, Poland |
| 15:25 | Liquid Scintillation Counting calibration. It's easy or is it? Ca-45 case study. | Pawel Gaca | Gau-Radioanalytical, University of Southampton, UK |
| 15:45 | The method of Pb-212 measurements in air with the application of the LSC technique | Stanislaw Chalupnik | Silesian Centre for Environmental Radioactivity, Central Mining Institute, Poland |
| 16:15 | Conference Photo followed by Poster Session (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 17:45 | End of day one | ||
| Time | Item or Presentation | Presenting Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Welcome Coffee (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| Session 3: Advances in Plastic and Liquid Scintillators | Chair: Alex Tarancon Sanz | ||
| 09:15 | Plenary Talk - Advances in the use of Plastic Scintillators: PSkits for the rapid measurement of decommissioning samples | Hector Bagán | University of Barcelona, Spain |
| 09:45 | Development of poly(9-vinylcarbazole)-based plastic scintillators loaded with Bi2O3 nanoparticles | Masanori Koshimizu | Shizuoka University, Japan |
| 10:05 | New Zirconium-loaded liquid scintillators using nanoparticle dispersion for neutrinoless double beta decay search | Akito Watanabe | Graduate School of Engineering, Japan |
| 10:25 | Homemade vs. commercial scintillation cocktail for radiocarbon measurements by the direct absorption method and LSC | Ionut Faurescu | National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenic and Isotopic Technologies (ICSI), Romania |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 11:15 | Scintillating Iron Imprinted Polymers (Sc-Fe-IIP): Novel material for Fe-55 selective analysis | Isaac Gimenez | Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| 11:35 | Application of polyethylene naphthalate sheets to alpha particle discrimination in the use of 4π-alpha-gamma anticoincidence spectroscopy | Yuya Soeta | Kindai University, Japan |
| 11:55 | New scintillation liquids without Nonylphenol Ethoxylates: comparative study of their behavior with classic scintillation liquids | Céline Augeray Marielle Crozet | Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), France Commissariat a l’energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (CEA), France |
| 12:15 | Novel porous and functionalized scintillating materials for advanced radioactivity measurement | Arnau Coma | Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| 12:35 | Lunch (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| Session 4: Optimisation of Liquid Scintillation Counting Hardware | Chair: Philippe Cassette | ||
| 13:30 | A custom-built liquid scintillation counter to apply the CIEMAT/NIST method and the TDCR method | Karsten Kossert | Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany |
| 13:50 | Standardization of I-123 by liquid scintillation counting | Marcell Péter Takács | Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany |
| 14:10 | Design of an FPGA based α/β pulse shape discrimination board for liquid scintillation counter | Zhijie Yang | National Institute of Metrology (NIM), China |
| 14:30 | Optimisation of Lab on Chip Devices for In Situ Radiometric Detection with Numerical Modelling, LSC, and Cherenkov Counting for pure β emitting radionuclides | Sarah Lu | University of Southampton, UK |
| 14:50 | Automated System for Assessing PMT Photocathode Non-Uniformity | Phillipe Cassette | Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Physics, Bulgaria |
| 15:10 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 15:40 | Hidex Technical Workshop | ||
| 16:45 | End of day two | ||
| Evening | |||
| 18:45 | Drinks Reception (Boathouse 4 Mezzanine, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard) | ||
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner (Boathouse 7 Restaurant, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard) | ||
| 21:30 | After Dinner Presentation - ATOMIK Spirit Story & Tasting (Prof Jim Smith) | ||
| Time | Item or Presentation | Presenting Author | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Welcome Coffee (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| Session 5: Advances in Plastic and Liquid Scintillators | Chair: Karsten Kossert | ||
| 09:15 | Plenary Talk - Liquid scintillation counting for half-life determinations in the range from nanoseconds to gigayears | Karsten Kossert | Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany |
| 09:45 | TDCRPy: A Python package for TDCR measurements | Romain Coulon | Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, France |
| 10:05 | Code comparison between NIM and PTB for 4πβ(LS)-γ coincidence analysis based on list mode data | Haoran Liu | National Institute of Metrology (NIM), China |
| 10:25 | A TDCR Cherenkov counting method for Bi-212 | Xiongxin Dai | China Institute for Radiation Protection, China |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 11:10 | Investigation of the possible effect of the accidental coincidences correction on the determination of optimal kB value by efficiency variation with grey filters | K Mitev | Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Physics, Bulgaria |
| 11:30 | Novel LSC Approach Combining Two Quench Correction Technologies Simultaneously - Experiences From the First Application, Biofuels | Elmo Wiikinkoski | Hidex, Finland |
| 11:50 | Calibration Standards and Proficiency Testing Samples in Liquid Scintillation Analysis | Evgeny Taskaev | Eckert & Ziegler Analytics, Inc., USA |
| 12:10 | Lunch (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| Session 6: Scintillation Methods in Nuclear and Medical Applications | Chair: Xiaolin Hou | ||
| 13:00 | Plenary Talk - Liquid Scintillation Counting for difficult to measure (DTM) radionuclides in waste sentencing | Phillip Warwick | University of Southampton, UK |
| 13:30 | A novel method for separation and measurement of Zr-93 from radioactive waste and mineral samples | István Papp | ISOTOPTECH Zrt, Hungary |
| 13:50 | Validation of a method for the determination of Sr-89 and Sr-90 with cherenkov and liquid scintillation counting | Claudia Landstetter | Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria |
| 14:10 | Radiochemical characterization of low- and Intermediate-level radioactive waste at KAERI | Tae-Hong Park | Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea |
| 14:30 | Analysis of Sm-151 in bioshield concrete by Liquid Scintillation Counting: challenges and solutions | Frances Rowlands | University of Southampton, UK |
| 14:50 | Coffee Break (1st Floor, Action Stations) | ||
| 15:15 | Plenary Talk - Development of liquid scintillation counting and Cherenkov counting methods in medical applications | Xiongxin Dai | China Institute for Radiation Protection & Shanxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Translational Nuclear Medicine and Precision Protection, China |
| 15:45 | Determining I-129 in nuclear decommissioning relevant materials | David Reading | University of Southampton, UK |
| 16:05 | Determination of gross alpha and beta activity in water samples: proficiency tests as a tool for better understanding, comparisons, improvements and harmonization of different methods | Jasmina Kožar Logar | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
| 16:25 | Using liquid scintillation spectrometry for the evaluation of radionuclide inventory in radioactive waste | Sooyeon Lim | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Daejeon. |
| 16:45 | Using liquid scintillation counting to measure internal contamination: Presentation and optimization of methods | Di Pasquale S | National Institute for Radioelements - IRE, Belgium |
| 17:05 | Closing Remarks - LSC2024 | ||
| Lead Author | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Haruhisa Tsukahara | Research institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan | Development of LiAlO2 nanoparticle-loaded plastic scintillators for neutron detection |
| Naru Hayashi | Shizuoka University, Japan | Development of UV-cured Plastic Scintillators with 9,9-dimethylfluorene Having High Scintillation Light Yields |
| Wook SOHN | Central Research Institute, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd, Korea | Machine learning approach using Bayesian linear regression to determination of Cherenkov counting efficiencies of radiostrontium |
| Mattia Taroni | Protex Italia Srl, Nuclear Division & KAOS srl, Italy | Removable Surface contamination by NORM via Smear Test in Liquid Scintillation Counting for alpha and beta emitters. Optimization of the analytical technique |
| Oxana Blinova | IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories (Radiometrics Laboratory), Monacco | Measurements of tritium in aqueous samples using a Hidex Triathler portable liquid scintillation spectrometer and their application to verification of compliance with operational limits. |
| Justyna Marganiec-Gałązka | National Centre for Nuclear Research, Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Poland | Determination of Ga-68 half-life by Liquid Scintillation Counting |
| Joanna Najman | IFJ PAN Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland | Measurements of tritium in precipitation of Krakow, Poland using electrolytic enrichment and liquid scintillation counting spectrometer |
| Jerzy W. Mietelski | IFJ PAN Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland | LSC spectrometer as an excellent tool for quality control of fine light sources made of C-14 doped plastic scintillators aimed for photomultiplier tests |
| Gahyun Kim | Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea | Sequential separation of Cs-137 and Sr-90 from seawater based on column chromatography |
| Kahee Jeong | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Korea | Comparison of H-3 radioactivity using efficiency calibration source and performance in proficiency test |
| Kahee Jeong | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Korea | Effect of Co-60 interference on Ni-63 analysis using liquid scintillation counting method |
| Sooyeon Lim | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Korea | Optimization of Analysis Method for Liquid Scintillation Counting of Metallic Samples in Radioactive Waste |
| Zhou, Y | Lanzhou University, China | Synthesis and study of dual-functional separation and scintillating resin for americium |
| Jieun Park | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Korea | A Study of H-3 and C-14 analysis in dry active waste using thermal decomposition |
| Jieun Park | Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company Limited, Korea | The analysis of C-14 radioactivity in spent activated carbon generated from nuclear power plants |