A review of global radioxenon background research and issues

TW Bowyer - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2021 - Springer
Among the most important problems for the world-wide nuclear explosion monitoring is the
interference of naturally occurring and man-made radionuclides. The International …

Real-time detection and discrimination of radioactive gas mixtures using nanoporous inorganic scintillators

R Marie-Luce, P Mai, F Lerouge, Y Cheref, S Pierre… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The nuclear industry's expansion to encompass carbon-free electricity generation from small
modular reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing necessitates enhanced detection and …

Kiloton-scale xenon detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay and other new physics searches

A Avasthi, TW Bowyer, C Bray, T Brunner, N Catarineu… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Large detectors employing xenon are a leading technology in existing and planned
searches for new physics, including searches for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν β β) …

Production and measurement of fission product noble gases

MA Goodwin, SJ Bell, R Britton, AV Davies… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gaseous fission products have been produced via thermal neutron irradiation of a highly-
enriched uranium target and extracted using a custom gas processing system for …

6 months of radioxenon detection in western Europe with the SPALAX-New generation system-Part1: Metrological capabilities

S Topin, P Gross, P Achim, S Generoso… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The SPALAX-NG is a new-generation system that is designed to detect radioactive xenon at
trace levels in the atmosphere following a nuclear explosion or civilian source release. This …

Evaluation methods of adsorbents for air purification and gas separation at low concentration: Case studies on xenon and krypton

A Monpezat, S Topin, L Deliere… - Industrial & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of gas separation processes dealing with very low concentration ranges is
a rapidly growing domain with key applications such as trace detection, air purification from …

Development of a beta-gamma radioxenon detector with improved beta resolution

M Foxe, M Mayer, A Couture, J Hayes… - Pure and Applied …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The International Monitoring System includes a network of radionuclide detectors
operated around the world monitoring for nuclear explosions. A key aspect of the …

Enhancing the detection sensitivity of a high-resolution β− γ coincidence spectrometer

MA Goodwin, PH Regan, SJ Bell, R Britton… - Journal of environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
A high-resolution β− γ coincidence spectrometry system has been set-up and calibrated at
the UK CTBT Radionuclide Laboratory (known as GBL15) at AWE. The system has been …

SAUNA QB-Array: The realization of a new concept in radioxenon detection

A Ringbom, T Fritioff, M Aldener, A Axelsson… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We introduce a new concept in radioxenon detection-the radioxenon Array, defined as a
system where air sampling and activity measurement is performed at multiple locations …

A high-resolution β− γ coincidence spectrometry system for radioxenon measurements

MA Goodwin, R Britton, AV Davies, SJ Bell… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
GBL15, the UK's noble gas certified Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
radionuclide laboratory supports the International Monitoring System (IMS) through …