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Progress, Performance, and Prospects of Ultra-High Resolution Microcalorimeter Spectrometers [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, 2017.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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36 pages : digital, PDF file
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
In 2005 the LANL/NIST team used a single high-resolution microcalorimeter detector to measure the gamma-ray spectrum of a plutonium sample. After more than a decade of research and development on this topic, both the technology and our general understanding of its capabilities have advanced greatly, such that a progress review is now timely. We examine the scenario of a large-scale reprocessing plant and conclude that current non-destructive analysis (NDA) methods are inadequate to safeguard such a facility to the desired levels, leading to undesirable dependence on massspectrometry (MS) destructive analysis (DA). The development of microcalorimeter detectors is intended to close the performance gap between NDA and DA methods to address the needs of nuclear facilities.
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E 1.99:la-ur--16-26714
la-ur--16-26714
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/23/2017.
"la-ur--16-26714"
Andrew Scott Hoover; D. A. Bennett; Mark Philip Croce; Michael W. Rabin; J. N. Ullom.
Funding Information
AC52-06NA25396
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