Using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Nondestructive Isotopic Analysis Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Nondestructive Isotopic Analysis

Creator

  • Author: Ludewigt, Bernhard A.
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Mozin, Vladimir
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Haefner, Andrew
    Creator Type: Personal
  • Author: Quiter, Brian
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Accelerator & Fusion Research Division.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Berkeley, California
    Additional Info: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 2010-07-14

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) has been studied as one of the nondestructive analysis (NDA) techniques currently being investigated by a multi-laboratory collaboration for the determination of Pu mass in spent fuel. In NRF measurements specific isotopes are identified by their characteristic lines in recorded gamma spectra. The concentration of an isotope in a material can be determined from measured NRF signal intensities if NRF cross sections and assay geometries are known. The potential of NRF to quantify isotopic content and Pu mass in spent fuel has been studied. The addition of NRF data to MCNPX and an improved treatment of the elastic photon scattering at backward angles has enabled us to more accurately simulate NRF measurements on spent fuel assemblies. Using assembly models from the spent fuel assembly library generated at LANL, NRF measurements are simulated to find the best measurement configurations, and to determine measurement sensitivities and times, and photon source and gamma detector requirements. A first proof-of-principal measurement on a mock-up assembly with a bremsstrahlung photon source demonstrated isotopic sensitivity to approximately 1% limited by counting statistics. Data collection rates are likely a limiting factor of NRF-based measurements of fuel assemblies but new technological advances may lead to drastic improvements.
  • Physical Description: 8

Subject

  • Keyword: Bremsstrahlung
  • Keyword: Nondestructive Analysis
  • Keyword: Photons
  • Keyword: Spent Fuels
  • STI Subject Categories: 46
  • Keyword: Lanl
  • Keyword: Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence, Nondestructive Analysis, Nuclear Safeguards
  • Keyword: Resonance Fluorescence
  • Keyword: Sensitivity
  • STI Subject Categories: 98
  • Keyword: Statistics Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence, Nondestructive Analysis, Nuclear Safeguards
  • Keyword: Cross Sections
  • Keyword: Fuel Assemblies
  • Keyword: Gamma Spectra
  • Keyword: Scattering

Source

  • Conference: 51st INMM Annual Meeeting, Baltimore, MD, July 11-15, 2010

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: LBNL-3890E
  • Grant Number: DE-AC02-05CH11231
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 988081
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1014292
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