Neutron resonance spectroscopy for the characterization of materials and objects

P Schillebeeckx, A Borella, F Emiliani… - Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The resonance structure in neutron induced reaction cross sections can be used to
determine the elemental compositions of materials or objects. The occurrence of resonances …

Neutron-resonance transmission analysis with a compact deuterium-tritium neutron generator

EA Klein, F Naqvi, JE Bickus, HY Lee… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Neutron resonance transmission analysis (NRTA) is a spectroscopic technique that uses the
resonant attenuation of epithermal neutrons to infer the isotopic composition of an object …

Development of an integrated non-destructive analysis system, Active-N

H Tsuchiya, Y Toh, A Ohzu, K Furutaka… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
An integrated active neutron non-destructive analysis (NDA) system, Active-N, was
developed to gain knowledge of active neutron NDA techniques that are applicable to …

Nondestructive assay options for spent fuel encapsulation

SJ Tobin, P Jansson - 2014 - osti.gov
This report describes the role that nondestructive assay (NDA) techniques and systems of
NDA techniques may have in the context of an encapsulation and deep geological …

[HTML][HTML] Neutron resonance fission neutron analysis for nondestructive fissile material assay

K Hironaka, J Lee, M Koizumi, F Ito, J Hori… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose neutron resonance fission neutron analysis (NRFNA), an active nondestructive
assay (NDA) technique, to improve the capability to identify and quantify a small amount of …

Spent fuel nondestructive assay integrated characterization from active neutron, passive neutron, and passive gamma

H Trellue, G McMath, A Trahan, A Favalli, T Burr… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Spent nuclear fuel comprises a wide range of irradiated isotopic material compositions, and
characterization through nondestructive measurements is beneficial in verifying declared …

The use of the BIC set in the characterization of used nuclear fuel assemblies by nondestructive assay

AM Bolind - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper explains why the burnup, initial enrichment, and cooling time of a used fuel
assembly–collectively called the BIC set of variables–characterize it to first order for the …

[PDF][PDF] Proposal of neutron resonance densitometry for particle like debris of melted fuel using NRTA and NRCA

H Harada, F Kitatani, M Koizumi, H Tsuchiya… - Proc. of the 35th …, 2013 - core.ac.uk
Neutron resonance densitometry (NRD) has been proposed to quantify nuclear materials in
particlelike debris of melted fuel formed in a severe accident of nuclear reactors such as the …

Progress report on mockup irradiation capsule fuel measurements at LANSCE

SC Vogel, JR Angell, DT Carver, AE Craft… - 2022 - osti.gov
Irradiation tests are a key component of nuclear fuel development and identifying typical and
atypical regions in the irradiated fuel volume relies on very few characterization techniques …

Generalized analysis method for neutron resonance transmission analysis

H Harada, A Kimura, F Kitatani, M Koizumi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Neutron resonance densitometry (NRD) is a non-destructive analysis method, which can be
applied to quantify special nuclear materials (SNM) in small particle-like debris of melted …