Browsing by Subject "Plutonium"
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(2020-09-09)Several forensic analyses have been performed on irradiated UO2 and weapons usable Pu to discriminate their origin and history. The discrimination techniques applied here may be used to aid intelligence officials in the ...
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(2009-05-15)When an accident involving the possibility of a plutonium contaminated wound occurs, the contamination is often quantified using sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) and high purity germanium (HPGe) detection systems. The NaI(Tl) system ...
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(2023-05-04)The proliferation resistance analysis of re-processing and re-enriching spent uranium fuel discharged from a Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor with regards to the accumulation of 236U and 238Pu was conducted. ...
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(2009-05-15)Neutron coincidence counting is an important passive Nondestructive Assay (NDA) technique widely used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of nuclear material in bulk samples. During the fission process, multiple ...
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(2011-08-08)As nuclear energy grows in the United States and around the world, the expansion of the nuclear fuel cycle is inevitable. All currently deployed commercial reprocessing plants are based on the Plutonium - Uranium Extraction ...