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In the framework of the radioactive waste drum characterization using neutron coincidence counting, the Nuclear Measurement Laboratory of French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Cadarache is studying plastic scintillators as an alternative to ideal but costly <sup>3</sup>He gas proportional counters. Plastic scintillators are at least five times cheaper for the same detection efficiency, and in addition, they detect fast neutrons three orders of magnitude more quickly than <sup>3</sup>He detectors. However, they are sensitive to gamma rays with no pulse shape discrimination abilities for large detection volumes, which implies the necessity to identify precisely gamma background sources that may affect the useful signal. This article presents a detailed analysis of the gamma-ray spectrum of a radioactive waste drum containing glove box filters contaminated by plutonium dioxide. Classical gamma emissions following alpha and beta disintegrations are identified, and also those accompanying inelastic scattering (n, n') or radiative capture (n, &#x03B3; ) reactions in the whole waste drum, and (&#x03B1; , n) or (&#x03B1; , p) reactions in the filtration media, which can lead to neutron-gamma coincidences parasitizing useful coincidences from plutonium spontaneous fissions.

High-Resolution Gamma Spectrometry of a Plutonium Bearing Waste Drum With High-Energy Reaction-Induced Gamma Rays