Open AccessCoincidence/Multiplicity Photofission Measurements
Author(s) -
James L. Jones,
Martyn T Swinhoe,
Stephen J Tobin,
W. H. Geist,
D.R. Norman,
R.B. Rothrock,
Corey R Freeman,
K.J. Haskell
Publication year - 2009
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/968685
Subject(s) - photofission , oak ridge national laboratory , nuclear physics , national laboratory , nuclear engineering , coincidence , homeland security , physics , neutron , nuclear weapon , engineering , fission , political science , engineering physics , law , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , terrorism
An series of experiments using the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) photonuclear inspection system and a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)-supplied, list-mode data acquisition method have shown enhanced performance utilizing pulsed photofission-induced, neutron coincidence counting between pulses of an up-to-10-MeV electron accelerator for nuclear material detection and identification. The enhanced inspection methodology has applicability to homeland security, treaty-related support, and weapon dismantlement applications. For the latter, this technology can directly support of Department of Energy/NA241 programmatic mission objectives relative to future Rocky Ridge-type testing campaigns for active inspection systems