by Helko van den Brom, Gert Rietveld, and Jan Paepen
The accurate measurement of small electrical currents is essential for the measurement of ionizing radiation as generated by radionuclides. VSL has been involved in the work conducted by IRMM in support of the CCRI(II) Working Group on Realization of the Becquerel, whose objective is the development of a reproducible re-entrant ionization chamber that could ultimately replace the ‘Système International de Référence’ (SIR), the BIPM facility used for international comparisons of radioactivity measurements, by a worldwide distributed radioactivity standard.
