Detecting special nuclear materials in suspect containers using high-energy gamma rays emitted by fission products [electronic resource].
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2009.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy - Additional Creators
- United States. Department of Energy. Yucca Mountain Project Office, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- 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.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:7,529,332
7,529,332 - Subject(s)
- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
05/05/2009.
"7,529,332"
"US patent application 11/852,237"
Norman, Eric B. (Oakland, CA); Prussin, Stanley G. (Kensington, CA). - Funding Information
- AC03-76SF00098
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