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The exceptional sensitivity and high resolution of high purity germanium detectors in gamma-ray spectrometry and their use in underground laboratories has increasing application because of the important science and technology that it allows to be studied. In the beginning their application was focussed on rare fundamental phenomena, e.g. double beta decay, rare decays and Dark Matter search, but a growing number of underground measurements is being performed also in other fields such as environmental monitoring, surveillance of nuclear activities, benchmarking of other physical techniques and materials selection for equipment which require materials with extremely low levels of radioactivity. This report describes the state of the art in underground gamma-ray spectrometry with high purity germanium detectors. Various applications in underground laboratories are presented.

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