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ELEMENTS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PROPERTIES OF RADIATION; PRODUCTION OF RADIOISOTOPES; INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH PHYSICS; THE LABORATORY; HAZARD CONTROL; DECONTAMINATION AND THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE; LABORATORY APPARATUS; INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC TECHNIQUES; DETECTION DEVICES: INTEGRATING TYPES; PARTICLE DETECTORS AND THEIR USE; ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT; ERRORS AND CORRECTIONS; THE STATISTICS OF COUNTING; THE CHOICE OF COUNTING EQUIPMENT; SPECIAL COUNTING TECHNIQUES; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; FEASIBILITY; RADIOACTIVE TECHNIQUES IN ANALYSIS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY AND GAMMA-RADIOGRAPHY; APPLICATIONS OF ISOTOPES AND RADIATION.

Over the past decade significant progress has been achieved in the development of waste characterization and control procedures and equipment as a direct response to ever-increasing requirements for quality and reliability of information on waste characteristics. Failure in control procedures at any step can have important, adverse consequences and may result in producing waste packages which are not compliant with the waste acceptance criteria for disposal, thereby adversely impacting the repository. The information and guidance included in this publication corresponds to recent achievements and reflects the optimum approaches, thereby reducing the potential for error and enhancing the quality of the end product. -- Publisher's description.