Identification of Fissionable Materials Using the Tagged Neutron Technique
This summary describes experiments to detect and identify fissionable materials using the tagged neutron technique. The objective of this work is to enhance homeland security capability to find fissionable material that may be smuggled inside shipping boxes, containers, or vehicles. The technique distinguishes depleted uranium from lead, steel, and tungsten. Future work involves optimizing the technique to increase the count rate by many orders of magnitude and to build in the additional capability to image hidden fissionable materials. The tagged neutron approach is very different to other techniques based on neutron die-away or photo-fission. This work builds on the development of the Associated Particle Imaging (API) technique at the Special Technologies Laboratory (STL) [1]. Similar investigations have been performed by teams at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Khlopin Radium Institute in Russia, and by the EURITRACK collaboration in the European Union [2,3,4].
- Research Organization:
- National Security Technologies, LLC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC52-06NA25946
- OSTI ID:
- 960394
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/25946-602; TRN: US0903141
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Atlanta Meeting, Conference: American Nuclear Society 2009 Annual Meeting; Atlanta, Georgia; June 14-18, 2009
- Publisher:
- American Nuclear Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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