Field test of New TASTEX system for plutonium product verification at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6883451

Kuno, Y; Shigeoka, K; Nishida, K; Ikeda, H; Hayashi, N; Wachi, I; Hsue, S T; Sprinkle, J K; Gunnink, R; Ruhter, W D

This report describes the field test results of the New TASTEX system. This system consisting of the high resolution gamma spectrometer and the k-edge densitometer can measure both isotopic abundances and concentration of plutonium simultaneously. Entire system is controlled by the multichannel analyzer and a multi-user computer. The system was designed and built under the Japan Support Program for Agency Safeguards (JASPAS). The software of this system developed at LANL and LLNL has been installed in the system assembled at the Tokai reprocessing plant (TRP) in July 1985. In the course of campaigns from 1985 until 1988, field tests have been carried out on plutonium product solutions of TRP. The results of plutonium concentration and isotopic abundances obtained by the k-edge densitometer and the high resolution gamma spectrometer (HRGS) have been compared with those by controlled potential coulometer and mass spectrometer respectively. Precision of plutonium determination with k-edge densitometer is estimated approximately 0.7% and 1.0% for the freshly processed plutonium and the aged plutonium respectively. The scatters in the relative differences between HRGS and the destructive analysis (DA) detected on the results of freshly processed plutonium sample were 1.6%, 0.4%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 8.0% for Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, Pu-241, and Pu-242 respectively, whereas those on the results of aged sample were 1.4%, 0.5%, 1.1%, 1.1% for Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-240, and Pu-241 respectively. 9 refs., 15 figs., 7 tabs.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA); Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan); Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6883451
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-88-2627; CONF-880631-51; ON: DE88016336
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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