Published August 2007
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Determination of the age of research-reactor fuel rods
Creators
- 1. Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.B. 77, H-1525 Budapest (Hungary)
- 2. KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O.B. 49, H-1525 Budapest 114 (Hungary)
Description
It is demonstrated that a previously developed method for non-destructive, gamma-spectrometric age determination of uranium can be successfully used to determine the age of research-reactor fuel rods. It relies on measuring the daughter/parent activity ratio 214Bi/234U by low-background, high-resolution gamma-spectrometry using intrinsic efficiency calibration. The method does not require the use of any reference materials nor the use of an efficiency-calibrated geometry, and in many cases it could be applied by safeguards inspectors even on the site of the inspection. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA
- Imprint Place
- Vienna (Austria)
- ISBN
- 978-92-0-104707-6
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of an international safeguards symposium on addressing verification challenges. Posters
- Imprint Pagination
- 433 p.
- Series
- Proceedings series
- Journal Page Range
- p. 223-227
- ISSN
- 0074-1884
Conference
- Title
- International safeguards symposium on addressing verification challenges
- Dates
- 16-20 Oct 2006
- Place
- Vienna (Austria)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Austria
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39093405
- Subject category
- S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AGE ESTIMATION; BISMUTH 214; CALIBRATION; FUEL RODS; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; ON-SITE INSPECTION; RESEARCH REACTORS; SAFEGUARDS; URANIUM 234
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BISMUTH ISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FUEL ELEMENTS; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; INSPECTION; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM 28 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NEON 24 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract OAHANI-ABA-04/06
- Notes
- 9 refs, 4 tabs
- Secondary number(s)
- IAEA-CN--148/161P