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Non destructive analysis of shielded highly enriched uranium

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (United States)

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Arms control and special nuclear material reduction requirements will eventually encompass shielded highly enriched uranium (HEU) systems. Non-destructive analysis (NDA) techniques for plutonium such as neutron multiplicity measurements and analysis are well developed and provide information regarding the properties of plutonium systems. In a previous study we developed a NDA method for determining the mass and neutron multiplication of subcritical bare metal systems of HEU. In this work we present results for a HEU sphere enclosed within various shielding materials of low density, (carbon and beryllium), medium density (iron) and high density (lead)

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Symposium on international safeguards: Verification and nuclear material security. Book of extended synopses

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Symposium on international safeguards: Verification and nuclear material security. Book of extended synopses
Imprint Pagination
377 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 354-355
Report number
IAEA-SM--367

Conference

Title
Verification and nuclear material security
Acronym
Symposium on international safeguards
Dates
29 Oct - 2 Nov 2001
Place
Vienna (Austria)

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Notes
4 refs, 1 fig., 1 tab
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-SM--367/17/06