Nondestructive assay system development for a plutonium scrap recovery facility

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.1985.4336981· OSTI ID:6206108

Hsue, S T; Baker, M P

A plutonium scrap recovery facility is being constructed at the Savannah River Plant (SRP). The safeguards groups of the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been working since the early design stage of the facility with SRP and other national laboratories to develop a state-of-the-art assay system for this new facility. Not only will the most current assay techniques be incorporated into the system, but also the various nondestructive assay (NDA) instruments are to be integrated with an Instrument Control Computer (ICC). This undertaking is both challenging and ambitious; an entire assay system of this type has never been done before in a working facility. This paper will describe, in particular, the effort of the Los Alamos Safeguards Assay Group in this endeavor. Our effort in this project can be roughly divided into three phases: NDA development, system integration, and integral testing. 6 references.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6206108
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-84-3379; CONF-841007-14; ON: DE85002421
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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