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The race for new radiation monitors

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New dosimeters are needed to measure radiation up to extreme levels created by particle accelerators and nuclear fusion reactors. The time to develop these dosimeters is now.

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Figure 1: View of typical dosimetry arrays for particle accelerators and for a nuclear fusion reactor.
Figure 2: The increase in energies reached at various accelerators built throughout the years.
Figure 3: The growth in performance of tokamak fusion machines with time.

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  1. Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton Didcot, OX11 0QX, Oxon, UK

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  2. R. E. M. Oxford, Eynsham, Witney, OX29 4PD, Oxfordshire, UK

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