{"title":"Determination of Pu-239 for nuclear material safeguards verification purposes","authors":"S. El-Mongy, W.A.M. El-Gamal","doi":"10.1109/NRSC.1999.760953","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This work aims at measurement of Pu-239 for nuclear materials safeguards verification purposes. The work was carried out at Los-Alamos National Lab, (USA). Due to the strategic nature of the element, few samples were available to be assayed. The gamma spectrometric non-destructive assay technique was used for determining amount of Pu in the samples. A correction factor for self-attenuation due to the Pu matrix was made. The results show that the declared (certified) and measured (verified) values of Pu-239 agree with an average precision of about 0.40%.","PeriodicalId":250544,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","volume":"467 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Radio Science Conference. NRSC'99 (IEEE Cat. No.99EX249)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRSC.1999.760953","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This work aims at measurement of Pu-239 for nuclear materials safeguards verification purposes. The work was carried out at Los-Alamos National Lab, (USA). Due to the strategic nature of the element, few samples were available to be assayed. The gamma spectrometric non-destructive assay technique was used for determining amount of Pu in the samples. A correction factor for self-attenuation due to the Pu matrix was made. The results show that the declared (certified) and measured (verified) values of Pu-239 agree with an average precision of about 0.40%.