The treatment using UV radiation and photons has more energy and can have important and often profound effects on the properties of path detectors behind electrons or other particles that they may not be able to monitor.The effect of the UV radiation is studied to investigate the optical properties of CR-39 polymer. The measurements of FTIR spectroscopy show maintenance of the main vibratory band resulting from the irradiation times. The optical absorption spectrum of UV / VS indicates main alteration in the optical energy gap with irradiation times. From the results, we found that by increasing the irradiation time of CR-39 by UV- lamp due to increase in the sensitivity of the detector and improvement of its properties thus due to the safe used of these detectors. FTIR spectra shows the conservation of the distinctive spectral peaks related to the monomer of polymer before and after exposing to different intensities of UV-lamp. From this results, the CR-39 detector ultraviolet irradiated were conformed to be very sensitive to UV radiation.
This chapter show the natural of radioactivity as alpha particle which produce from decaying of radium to radon so in this chapter describe the radon in some types of household food (coffee, tea, powder milk, rice, flour, cornstarch, and powder coconut) and different types of salt by using Solid State Nuclear Track Detectors (SSNTD), were analyzed by closed-can technique (CR-39). Many food items contain natural sources of salt. Salt analysis is very important due to its high consumption by the population and for its medicinal use. Analysis the concentrations of Radon-222 and Radium-226 for different types of household foods samples are very substantial for realizing the comparative contributions of specific substances to the whole radon content set within the human body. After study it is found that the average values of annual effective dose in mSv/y are within the recommended limit of ICRP values except its values for cornstarch and sugar are relatively high, and there are a wide range of variations in the values of transfer factor for Rn-222, and Ra-226 for all types.