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Title: PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4];  [3];  [5];  [3];  [1];  [6]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. European Commission (Luxembourg)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Uppsala Univ., Uppsala (Sweden)
  5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co. (SKB) (Sweden)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1287045
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1397725; OSTI ID: 1492642
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-23993
Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002; DN4001030; MDGA517
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 833; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; passive gamma; burnup; cooling time; gamma spectroscopy; spent fuel; nuclear safeguards; germanium detector; final disposal; non-destructive assay; passive gamma, spent fuel, safeguards

Citation Formats

Vaccaro, S., Tobin, Stephen Joseph, Favalli, Andrea, Grogan, Brandon R., Jansson, Peter, Liljenfeldt, Henrik, Mozin, Vladimir, Hu, Jianwei, Schwalbach, P., Sjoland, A., Trellue, Holly Renee, and Vo, Duc Ta. PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.032.
Vaccaro, S., Tobin, Stephen Joseph, Favalli, Andrea, Grogan, Brandon R., Jansson, Peter, Liljenfeldt, Henrik, Mozin, Vladimir, Hu, Jianwei, Schwalbach, P., Sjoland, A., Trellue, Holly Renee, & Vo, Duc Ta. PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.032
Vaccaro, S., Tobin, Stephen Joseph, Favalli, Andrea, Grogan, Brandon R., Jansson, Peter, Liljenfeldt, Henrik, Mozin, Vladimir, Hu, Jianwei, Schwalbach, P., Sjoland, A., Trellue, Holly Renee, and Vo, Duc Ta. 2016. "PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.032. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1287045.
@article{osti_1287045,
title = {PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements},
author = {Vaccaro, S. and Tobin, Stephen Joseph and Favalli, Andrea and Grogan, Brandon R. and Jansson, Peter and Liljenfeldt, Henrik and Mozin, Vladimir and Hu, Jianwei and Schwalbach, P. and Sjoland, A. and Trellue, Holly Renee and Vo, Duc Ta},
abstractNote = {},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.032},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1287045}, journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
issn = {0168-9002},
number = C,
volume = 833,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sun Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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Figures / Tables:

Table 1 Table 1: Fuel characteristics for the SKB-50 PWR assemblies. The cooling time is the time between discharge and the time of measurement for which the October 2014 measurement dates were used.

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