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Title: Neutron interrogator assay system for the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant waste canisters and spent fuel: preliminary description and operating procedures manual

Abstract

A neutron interrogation assay system is being designed for the measurement of waste canisters and spent fuel packages at the new Idaho Chemical Processing Plant to be operated by Allied Chemical Corp. The assay samples consist of both waste canisters from the fluorinel dissolution process and spent fuel assemblies. The assay system is a /sup 252/Cf ''Shuffler'' that employs a cyclic sequence of fast-neutron interrogation with a /sup 252/Cf source followed by delayed-neutron counting to determine the /sup 235/U content.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
6773623
Report Number(s):
LA-7250-M
TRN: 78-014167
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; IDAHO CHEMICAL PROCESSING PLANT; NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; DELAYED NEUTRON ANALYSIS; SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS; URANIUM 235; CALIBRATION; CALIFORNIUM 252; CONTAINERS; NEUTRON SOURCES; ACTINIDE ISOTOPES; ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CALIFORNIUM ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; FUEL ELEMENTS; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MANAGEMENT; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR REACTION ANALYSIS; NUCLEI; PARTICLE SOURCES; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTOR COMPONENTS; URANIUM ISOTOPES; US AEC; US ERDA; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 055001* - Nuclear Fuels- Safeguards, Inspection, & Accountability- Technical Aspects; 400103 - Radiometric & Radiochemical Procedures- (-1987); 050800 - Nuclear Fuels- Spent Fuels Reprocessing; 052000 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Management

Citation Formats

Menlove, H O, Eccleston, G, Close, D A, and Speir, L G. Neutron interrogator assay system for the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant waste canisters and spent fuel: preliminary description and operating procedures manual. United States: N. p., 1978. Web. doi:10.2172/6773623.
Menlove, H O, Eccleston, G, Close, D A, & Speir, L G. Neutron interrogator assay system for the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant waste canisters and spent fuel: preliminary description and operating procedures manual. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6773623
Menlove, H O, Eccleston, G, Close, D A, and Speir, L G. 1978. "Neutron interrogator assay system for the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant waste canisters and spent fuel: preliminary description and operating procedures manual". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6773623. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6773623.
@article{osti_6773623,
title = {Neutron interrogator assay system for the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant waste canisters and spent fuel: preliminary description and operating procedures manual},
author = {Menlove, H O and Eccleston, G and Close, D A and Speir, L G},
abstractNote = {A neutron interrogation assay system is being designed for the measurement of waste canisters and spent fuel packages at the new Idaho Chemical Processing Plant to be operated by Allied Chemical Corp. The assay samples consist of both waste canisters from the fluorinel dissolution process and spent fuel assemblies. The assay system is a /sup 252/Cf ''Shuffler'' that employs a cyclic sequence of fast-neutron interrogation with a /sup 252/Cf source followed by delayed-neutron counting to determine the /sup 235/U content.},
doi = {10.2172/6773623},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6773623}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978},
month = {Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978}
}