Monitor for neutron and beta radiation RKS-02 «Kordon»
 

Surveillance of the automobile	Surveillance of the  rail transport	Surveillance of the pedestrian	Surveillance of the luggage

1. Destination
2. Monitor components and principle of operation
3. Typical arrangement scheme of monitor
4. Specifications
5. Monitor modifications
6. Acceptable service conditions
7. Size and weight
8. Monitor at objects

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1. Destination
Monitor for neutron and gamma radiation RKS-02 «Kordon» is an effective detection of natural and artificial origin radioactive materials during continuous remote monitoring of vehicles, railway transport, pedestrians, passengers and hand luggage.
The monitor measures compound density of gamma and neutron radiation flux during continuous tracing for flux density from natural background in place of detection units’ location signalizes about flux density over background level exceeding.
The monitor is for installation on checkpoints of airports, NPPs, specialized enterprises, state borders. In case of monitoring staff of specialized enterprises, NPPs' and monitoring of pedestrians, passengers, hand luggage the monitor usually has installed indoors.

2. Monitor components and principle of operation
Monitor is the fixed device consists of:
 – detection units;
 – control console with built-in power supply unit;
 

Narrow rack with one detection unit BDPS-03M

Wide rack with two detection units BDPS-03M (in the centre) or detection unit BDPS-06 (to the right)

Portal monitor with two and four detection units

The wall mounted control console UAK-11 with built-in power supply unit

The detection units convert compound flow of neutron and gamma radiation in chain of impulses at the output. The detection units’ operation principle has based on scintillation in plastic scintillators. Plastic scintillator sensitive to gamma and neutron radiation had use in kind of detector. Output impulses chain's count rate is proportional to density of gamma-quantum and neutrons compound flow in place of detection unit location.

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3. Typical arrangement scheme of monitor
The typical arrangement scheme of monitor has as example for vehicles monitoring.
 

Top view on one way monitor arrangement scheme

Top view on two ways monitor arrangement scheme

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4. Specifications
 

Signalization threshold had adjusting as one of three possible kinds:

·            «Absolute», adjusted in range of 0,2...50 s^-1•cm^-2. In this case monitor reacts on overthresholding of total level from background and monitored object;

·             «Relative», adjusted in range of 10...1000% as deviation of flux density metering result from background level;

·             «Efficient», adjusted in range of 0...10 as root-mean-square deviation (sigma) of flux density metering result from background level.

Metering time values had adjusting in range of 0,125...128 s.

Registration effectiveness of gamma radiation and fast neutrons from PuBe source complies with values (with deviation less ±35%), shown in table below.

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5. Monitor modifications
The monitor RKS-02 "Kordon" has passing metrology checking of the Gosstandart Ukraine.
 Vehicle and railway variant have a minimal monitored activity for 137Cs isotope in conditions of open geometry, gate 4 m wide, moving speed up to 10 km/h and natural background radiation value of 10 microR/h is 23,5 or 16,5 microCi for 1 s depending on total quantity (two, four) and kind (BDPS-03M, BDPS-06) of detection units.
 The monitor RKS-02 "Kordon" has twenty-four modifications
 

Pedestrian variant has minimal monitored activity for 137Cs isotope in conditions of open geometry, gate 0,7 m wide, moving speed up to 5 km/h and natural background radiation value of 10 microR/h is 0,8 microCi for 1 s.
 

6. Acceptable service conditions

• Temperature in range -30°C...+50°C for detection units and +5°C...+50°C for control console unit and power supply unit;

• Relative humidity up to 95% detection units and up to 80% (at +35°C) for control console unit and power supply unit;

• Variable magnetic field with strength up to 40 A/m.

7. Size and weight
 

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8. Monitor at objects
 

Surveillance of the automobile
	Vehicle monitoring at Ukrainian state border. «Truck port «Tchop»
	Sanity area of Chernobyl NPP. Vehicle and loads monitoring
	Vehicle monitoring at Ukrainian state border. International check-point «Yagodin»
	Narrow tall racks with four detection units for vehicles (monitor for Nuclear Research Institute, Republic Iran)
	Sanity area of Chernobyl NPP. Vehicle and loads monitoring
	Vehicle monitoring at Ukrainian state border. International check-point «Yagodin»
	Vehicle monitoring. International airport «Boryspil»
	Monitor sample for vehicles in Knyazhy Dvor
	Ingoing scrap metal monitoring at recycling plant «Vtormet», Kiev

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Surveillance of the  rail transport
	Scrap metal monitoring. Krivorozhsky metallurgical industrial complex «Krivorozhstal»
	Scrap metal monitoring. Donetsky metallurgical plant
	Scrap metal monitoring. Donetsky metallurgical plant
	Scrap metal monitoring. Metallurgical industrial complex «Azovstal»
	Monitoring of a railway transport on frontier of Ukraine. Customs transition "Farm - Michailovsky"

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Surveillance of the pedestrian
	Pedestrian portal monitor RKS-02 «Kordon» for Nuclear Research Institute, Republic Iran 1996.
	Monitoring of passengers, and the personnel of atomic power station and other radiation - dangerous manufactures (foot modification of monitor " Kordon ")

Surveillance of the luggage
	Passengers and hand luggage monitoring. International airport «Zaporozhye»
	Hand luggage monitoring. International airport «Dnepropetrovsk»

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 Monitors RKS-02 «Kordon» and detectors RPS-01 «Kordon» in different kinds are used with many objects of Ukraine, Russia, and other countries:

- Nikopol ferroalloys plant (railway variant), Nikopol, Ukraine, since 1996, phone: (05662) 1-85-58;
- Enterprise for radioactive waste products processing of the Ukrainian State Union «Radon» (vehicle variant), Kharkov, Ukraine, since 1997, phone: (0572) 93-41-59; fax: (0572) 94-34-80;
 - Enterprise for radioactive waste products processing of the Russian State Union «Radon» (vehicle variant), г. Sosnovy Bor, Russia, since 1997, phone: (81269) 6-30-89;
 - International airport «Kharkov» (pedestrian variant), Kharkov, Ukraine, since 1996;
- International airport «Dnepropetrovsk» (pedestrian variant), Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine since 1997, phone: (0562) 65-32-65, 99-53-84;
- International airport «Zaporozhye» (pedestrian variant), Zaporozhye, Ukraine, since 1999, phone: (0612) 34-71-49;
- International terminal «Truck port «Tchop» (vehicle variant), Uzhgorod, Ukraine, since 1998. In 2003 are moved on autoterminal "Autoport "Tisa", phone (03122) 1-36-89, 4-34-77;
- International truck terminal of check-point «Krakovets» (vehicle variant), Lvov, Ukraine, since 1998, phone: (0322) 39-96-65;
- International check-point«Yagodin» (vehicle and railway variants), Lutsk, Ukraine, since 1999, phone: (03322) 2-54-48;
- Metallurgical industrial complex «Azovstal» (railway variants), Mariupol, Ukraine, since 1998, phone: (0629) 22-74-13;
- Donetsky metallurgical plant (3 railway and 2 vehicle variants), Donetsk, Ukraine, since 1999, phone: (0622) 61-23-28;
- Metallurgical industrial complex «Zaporozhstal» (railway variant), Zaporozhye, Ukraine, since 1999, phone: (0612) 39-34-85;
- Vehicle and pedestrian variants in Tegeran, Iran, since 1998;
- Sanity area of Chernobyl NPP (2 vehicle variants), Chernobyl, Ukraine, since 1998 and 1999, phone: (04493) 5-15-01;
- Metallurgical industrial complex of Ilyitch (railway variant), Mariupol, Ukraine, since February, 2000, phone: (0629) 39-44-51.
- Krivorozhsky metallurgical industrial complex «Krivorozhstal» (railway variant), since 2001. Since 2003 (vehicle variants) and (1 vehicle variants) from 2004.
- Zaporozhsky metallurgical industrial complex «Zaporozhstal» (vehicle variant), since 2001.
- International airport «Boryspil» (vehicle variant), since 2002.
- Scrap recycling plant «Vtormet», Kiev (vehicle variant), since 2002 and (railway variant) monitor since 2003;
- Khmel'nitskaya NPP, Neteshin (vehicle variant), since 2003.
- Customs transition "Farm - Michailovsky" ( variant), 1 monitor, since 2003;
- Customs transition « Server «Kupyansk- yard» (railway variant), 1 monitor, since 2003;
- Rovno NPP (vehicle variant), 1 indicator of 2001 and 1 monitor since 2004; (railway variant), 2 radiometers since 2004; (pedestrian variant), 5 monitors, since 2004;
- South Ukraine NPP (vehicle variant), 1 indicator since 2001; (pedestrian variant), 1 monitor since 2002;
- Khmelnitskiy NPP (vehicle variant), 2 monitors, since 2003; (pedestrian variant), 7 monitors, since 2003 and 2004.
- Zaporozhye NPP  (vehicle  and railway variants), 2 monitors, since 2002; (pedestrian variant), 3 monitors, since 2003,
 - Enterprise «Nijhnedneprovsky pipe-rolling factory  (railway variant), 1 monitor since 2002, Dnepropetrovsk.
 - Enterprise «Electrometallurgy plant  «Dneprospetsstal» (vehicle  and railway variants), 2 monitors, since 2004, Zaporozhye.
 - Enterprise «Kramatorsky factory on processing hard domestic waste products» (vehicle variant), 1 monitor since 2004, Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
 - The Sevastopol institute of a nuclear energy and the industry (vehicle  and pedestrian variants), 2 monitors, since 2004.