3. STATUS OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION:
Staffing:
at the time of arrival Dr. C. K. MAN had part-time assistance to the extent of 10 man-hours (students) per week. Despite of previous recommendations no trained technical assistance was provided by any other source. During this mission the arrival of a research assistant from China (P.R.) was to be expected. However, he will only be able to work part-time on this project.
Equipment: all equipment supplied by the IAEA was found to be functioning.
Only the E-PERM electret reader had developed a minor defect (faulty automatic power switch), however, the reader is still fully useable. There is a noticable short-coming in terms of the lack of a portable dose rate meter, suitable for low level environmental radioactivity (e.g. MAB mod. 601) and accessory for measuring radon decay products with the IAEA- supplied Pylon AB-5 meter.
Facilities:
adequate laboratory facilities and the use of an inter-departmental van allow the satisfactory conduct of a survey programme
Environmental surveys: 3 pilot surveys on indoor-radon levels and external
gamma radiation have been carried out and sofar results have been published in the form of internal reports and one manuscript submitted to a review journal for publication (see Appendix 1). For detailed discussion see sect.5. Samples of questionaires used are given in Appendix 2.
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