Applied tools for determining low-activity radionuclides in large environmental samples

Considerable amounts of biological material contaminated with artificial radionuclides were generated to obtain the efficiency curves for low-activity radionuclide analyses of large environmental samples. Likewise, improving detection geometry is also an important task, mainly for studies involving conservation units with a high level of biodiversity preservation. This study aimed to evaluate the Monte Carlo efficiency curves without generating contaminated material with artificial radionuclides for water and vegetation measurements. An in-house adapted Marinelli geometry was applied to reduce the sampled amount of biological material in the ecosystem, which was combined with the Monte Carlo assisted efficiency curve for a more sustainable radiometric analysis.