Nondestructive assay of plutonium in empty stainless steel boxes by apparent mass method

C. Agarwal; S. Chaudhury; T. N. Nathaniel; A. Goswami

doi:10.1007/s10967-011-1474-3

Nondestructive assay of plutonium in empty stainless steel boxes by apparent mass method

C. Agarwal, S. Chaudhury, T. N. Nathaniel, A. Goswami

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Abstract

Apparent mass method (Venkataraman and Croft, Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res A 505:527, 2003), initially standardized for the assay of Pu (Agarwal et al., J Nucl Mater 651:386, 2007) has been used to get Pu amount in empty stainless steel boxes generally used for storing and transferring plutonium oxide powders. The results have been compared with the neutron coincidence counting results and have been found to match well. The advantage of the method is that it can be used for any sample with nonstandard geometry and with uncertain source distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-80
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	294
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-011-1474-3
State	Published - 1 Oct 2012
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Apparent mass method
Gamma ray spectrometry
Nonstandard geometry
Plutonium

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Analytical Chemistry
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Pollution
Spectroscopy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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