Detection of Shielded Nuclear Material in a Cargo Container
The Idaho National Laboratory, along with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Idaho State University’s Idaho Accelerator Center, are developing electron accelerator-based, photonuclear inspection technologies for the detection of shielded nuclear material within air-, rail-, and especially, maritime-cargo transportation containers. This paper describes a developing prototypical cargo container inspection system utilizing the Pulsed Photonuclear Assessment (PPA) technology, incorporates interchangeable, well-defined, contraband shielding structures (i.e., "calibration" pallets) providing realistic detection data for induced radiation signatures from smuggled nuclear material, and provides various shielded nuclear material detection results. Using a 4.8-kg quantity of depleted uranium, neutron and gamma-ray detection responses are presented for well-defined shielded and unshielded configurations evaluated in a selected cargo container inspection configuration. © 2001 Elsevier Science. All rights reserved
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE - NNSA
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC07-99ID-13727
- OSTI ID:
- 911104
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-05-00293; TRN: US0704394
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 562; Journal Issue: 2; Conference: International conference on Accelerator Applications 2005 (AccApp05),Venice, Italy,08/29/2005,09/01/2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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