Standoff Characterization of Highly Enriched Uranium using a Dual Particle Imaging System

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العنوان: Standoff Characterization of Highly Enriched Uranium using a Dual Particle Imaging System
المؤلفون: Tony H. Shin, Sara A. Pozzi, Michael C. Hamel, Shaun D. Clarke
المصدر: 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC).
بيانات النشر: IEEE, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
مصطلحات موضوعية: Materials science, Fission, Orders of magnitude (temperature), Neutron emission, Nuclear engineering, chemistry.chemical_element, Nuclear material, Uranium, Scintillator, Enriched uranium, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, chemistry, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Neutron
الوصف: Timely detection of HEU is one of the greatest challenges in homeland security applications, especially if any amount of shielding material is present. The specific activity of spontaneous 35U neutron emission is two orders of magnitude lower than that or 238U and six orders of magnitude lower than that of 240Pu. However, 235U has a sizable cross-section for the (n,f) reaction that can be exploited through interrogation with neutrons. In this work, AmLi sources were used to interrogate kilogram-scale masses of HEU at the Device Assembly Facility on the Nevada National Security Site. The response was recorded using the dual particle imaging system (DPI) developed at the University of Michigan, which is a combined Compton and neutron-scatter camera capable of spatial and spectral characterization of nuclear material. The response time of the liquid scintillators used in the DPI is on the order of nanoseconds, which is on the same time-scale of the fission chains induced in the HEU. This capability presents the possibility to directly analyze the fission chain dynamics to characterize the multiplication of the HEU samples. Results will show the discrimination of different quantities of HEU using the DPI.
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2017.8532669
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::19f46cd29c1926e1c1ab3d340fdd9812
https://doi.org/10.1109/nssmic.2017.8532669
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قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.1109/nssmic.2017.8532669