Published 1998 | Version v1
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Evaluation of NaI(TL) and plastic scintillators for use in remote, unattended, and portal monitoring

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Description

The authors have evaluated and compared some of the relevant operating characteristics of NaI and plastic scintillators for use in various safeguards monitoring applications. These include a sensitivity analysis of the two scintillators to various radiation fields and scintillator response as affected by environmental temperature. A comparison of experiment and modeling via the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) code has been performed to validate the calculational techniques. This then enables complex detector situations to be simulated with increased confidence

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Available from INIS in electronic form; ALSO AVAILABLE FROM OSTI AS DE99001757; NTIS; US GOVT. PRINTING OFFICE DEP.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
8 p.
Report number
LA-UR--98-2864

Conference

Title
39. Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) annual meeting
Dates
26-30 Jul 1998
Place
Naples, FL (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
30036890
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NAI DETECTORS; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; RADIATION MONITORING; REMOTE AREAS; SAFEGUARDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
Descriptors DEC
DATA; EVALUATION; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
Secondary number(s)
CONF-980733--