Gamma-Ray Measurements of Holdup Plant-Wide: Application Guide for Portable, Generalized Approach
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
This document is a guide for planning and performing measurements of nuclear material holdup using portable gamma-ray spectroscopy. Its focus on nuclear materials standards, measurement equipment and detectors, calibration models, measurement protocols, analysis algorithms, and error determination for holdup measurements is of particular interest to specialists in quantitative nondestructive gamma-ray measurements. Aspects of this focus are also of interest to the organizations that use the measurement results: safeguards, criticality safety, and waste management in particular. Those sections that describe the relationship between the required holdup measurements and (i) process history and design and (ii) facility status and (iii) “customers” of holdup measurements and those that deal with the (iv) planning, (v) implementing, and (vi) documenting holdup measurements will also serve interests of the operations groups responsible for setting up holdup measurement programs and organizations. The sections on verification and validation of holdup measurements and those that discuss the treatment of systematic effects on the measurement results address the additional interests of regulators of nuclear safeguards, criticality safety, and nuclear waste management.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 2396675
- Report Number(s):
- LA--14206
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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