The Use of On-Line Programmable Calculators in Nuclear Power Plant Laboratories

On-line programmable calculator systems and programs have been developed to meet health physics and radiochemistry needs at a three-unit PWR nuclear plant. The system provides automatic energy and efficiency calibration, and automatic quantitative radionuclide analysis for liquid and gaseous reactor effluent releases, environmental samples, and whole body counting data. Programmable calculator systems are also in use at other power reactor facilities for personnel dosimetry record keeping, TLD information processing, and storage of data for scheduled AEC reports.