Detecting special nuclear materials in suspect containers using high-energy gamma rays emitted by fission products
Patent
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OSTI ID:988155
- Oakland, CA
- Kensington, CA
A method and a system for detecting the presence of special nuclear materials in a suspect container. The system and its method include irradiating the suspect container with a beam of neutrons, so as to induce a thermal fission in a portion of the special nuclear materials, detecting the gamma rays that are emitted from the fission products formed by the thermal fission, to produce a detector signal, comparing the detector signal with a threshold value to form a comparison, and detecting the presence of the special nuclear materials using the comparison.
- Research Organization:
- Yucca Mountain Project, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- Assignee:
- The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
- Patent Number(s):
- 7,529,332
- Application Number:
- 11/852,237
- OSTI ID:
- 988155
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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