Abstract
This article is a general overview of the potential capacities of plastic scintillators in radionuclide activity determination. Plastic scintillation (PS) behaves as liquid scintillation does, but with some differences related to the solid state of plastic scintillators. These differences are the base of some drawbacks and some advantages, related to the use of PS. This article describes how these capacities are affected by PS composition, sample preparation, scintillation mechanisms and quenching calibration procedures. It also describes the capabilities for alpha and beta emitter determination and discrimination through the use of PS microspheres and PS resins and their application to different types of samples and radionuclide determination.
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