Detectors

Patent · 01 January 2002

OSTI ID:874295

Orr, Christopher Henry ^[1]; Luff, Craig Janson ^[1]; Dockray, Thomas ^[1]; Macarthur, Duncan Whittemore ^[2]; Bounds, John Alan ^[2]; Allander, Krag ^[2]

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1. Calderbridge, GB
2. Los Alamos, NM

The apparatus and method provide techniques through which both alpha and beta emission determinations can be made simultaneously using a simple detector structure. The technique uses a beta detector covered in an electrically conducting material, the electrically conducting material discharging ions generated by alpha emissions, and as a consequence providing a measure of those alpha emissions. The technique also offers improved mountings for alpha detectors and other forms of detectors against vibration and the consequential effects vibration has on measurement accuracy.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: British Nuclear Fuels PLC (Cheshire, GB); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): US 6359280
• OSTI ID: 874295
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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