STUDY AND MONITORING OF IONIZING RADIATIONS USING GEIGER RUSSIAN TUBE AND ARDUINO ELECTRONIC SYSTEM IN THE REGION OF SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, BRAZIL

The ionizing radiation is mainly the result of radon gas, the telluric radiation and the primary and secondary cosmic radiation produced at the interface of the ground level and the low atmosphere. However, it is difficult to separate over time the intensity of the ionizing radiation from each component as the energies overlap. The telluric radiation consists of decay products of 238U, 235U, 40K, and 232Th which is constant in each specific region. During the period of 11/06/2018 to 02/28/2019 it was possible to measure the intensity of the ionizing radiation every minute, with the aid of a simple system developed in the Physics Department of the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA), composed of a Russian Geiger and Arduino electronic system