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NNRA regulatory intervention in the manufacturing industrial space encompass the following operations:
Quality Control
- Density: rubber, oils, fabric, paper, etc
- Thickness: paper, glass, steel, plastic films
- Level: beverages, cooking oil
Process Control
- Density: cement, mud, liquids, chemical products
- Level: vessels, silos, chemical products, minerals
- Moisture: glass, cement, minerals
Radiotracers in
- Fertilizer Plants,
- Cement Factories,
- Sulphuric Acid Plants, etc
Radiation Sources
Gauges can be categorized by their mode of operation
- transmission
- backscatter
Type of radioactive source used
- Gamma, Beta and Neutron
- Sources
- X-ray
- Cesiums-137
- Cobalt-60
- Krypton-85 (encapsulated gas)
- Strontium-90 (foil source)
- Promethium-147 (foil source)
- Americium-241
- Americium-241/beryllium
- Plutonium-238/beryllium