CALCULATING ACCURATE SHUFFLER COUNT RATES WITH APPLICATIONS
Abstract
Shufflers are used to assay uranium and other fissile elements in bulk and waste quantities. They normally require physical calibration standards to achieve the most-accurate results, but such standards are generally rare and expensive, so inappropriate standards are often used out of necessity. This paper reports on a new technique that has been developed to calculate accurate count rates, in effect simulating physical standards with rapid and inexpensive calculations. The technique has been benchmarked on existing oxide and metallic standards, used to study a variety of conditions for which standards do not exist, and applied to inventory items needing verification measurements even though appropriate physical standards do not exist.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 781109
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-01-2685
TRN: AH200124%%168
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Conference title not supplied, Conference location not supplied, Conference dates not supplied; Other Information: PBD: 1 May 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; CALIBRATION STANDARDS; OXIDES; URANIUM; VERIFICATION; WASTES
Citation Formats
RINARD, P M. CALCULATING ACCURATE SHUFFLER COUNT RATES WITH APPLICATIONS. United States: N. p., 2001.
Web.
RINARD, P M. CALCULATING ACCURATE SHUFFLER COUNT RATES WITH APPLICATIONS. United States.
RINARD, P M. 2001.
"CALCULATING ACCURATE SHUFFLER COUNT RATES WITH APPLICATIONS". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/781109.
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abstractNote = {Shufflers are used to assay uranium and other fissile elements in bulk and waste quantities. They normally require physical calibration standards to achieve the most-accurate results, but such standards are generally rare and expensive, so inappropriate standards are often used out of necessity. This paper reports on a new technique that has been developed to calculate accurate count rates, in effect simulating physical standards with rapid and inexpensive calculations. The technique has been benchmarked on existing oxide and metallic standards, used to study a variety of conditions for which standards do not exist, and applied to inventory items needing verification measurements even though appropriate physical standards do not exist.},
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