Neutron absorbers and detector types for spent fuel verification using the self-interrogation neutron resonance densitometry

Riccardo Rossa; Alessandro Borella; Pierre-Etienne Labeau; Nicolas Pauly; Klaas van der Meer

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.032

Neutron absorbers and detector types for spent fuel verification using the self-interrogation neutron resonance densitometry

Riccardo Rossa, Alessandro Borella, Pierre-Etienne Labeau, Nicolas Pauly, Klaas van der Meer

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Abstract

This article compares different SINRD filters and detector types that can be used for the safeguards verification of spent nuclear fuel using the Self-Interrogation Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD). SINRD is a passive neutron technique that has the potential to directly estimate the 239Pu content in the spent fuel. Different filters of Gd and Cd (SINRD filters) were compared in this paper, and the performance of different detector types in terms of neutron counts and 239Pu sensitivity was estimated.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93-100
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	791
Issue number	08
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.032
State	Published - 24 Apr 2015

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Rossa, R., Borella, A., Labeau, P.-E., Pauly, N., & van der Meer, K. (2015). Neutron absorbers and detector types for spent fuel verification using the self-interrogation neutron resonance densitometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 791(08), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2015.04.032

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Neutron absorbers and detector types for spent fuel verification using the self-interrogation neutron resonance densitometry. / Rossa, Riccardo ; Borella, Alessandro; Labeau, Pierre-Etienne et al.
In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 791, No. 08, 24.04.2015, p. 93-100.

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