%0 Journal Article %T New Gamma-Spectrometry Technologies for Environmental Sciences %A Pavel P. Povinec %J Journal of Analytical Science & Technology %D 2012 %I %X HPGe-spectrometers operating in underground laboratories represent the most important recent achievements in the radiometric sector mainly because of better sensitivity, which enabled to decrease a sample size by about a factor of ten, and to carry out new applications of radionuclides as tracers of environmental processes. %K radiometrics %K HPGe-spectrometer %K background %K Monte Carlo simulation %K underground laboratory %K atmospheric radioactivity %K global fallout %K Chernobyl accident %K Fukushima accident %K radionuclide seawater profiles %U http://www.jastmag.org/journal/view.php?number=88