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A 3D-printed tool has been developed at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina that can eliminate months from the job of radioactive tank waste sampling.
Darrell M. Drake, John C. Hopkins, C. S. Young, H. Condé
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 40 | Number 2 | May 1970 | Pages 294-305
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A19690
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The differential cross sections for the production of gamma radiation from fast-neutron inelastic scattering have been measured at incident neutron energies from 4.00 to 7.67 MeV for Be, C, O, Al, Si, Fe, Ni, Nb, W, and 239Pu. The gamma-ray spectra were measured with a NaI(Tl) spectrometer using time-of-flight techniques to eliminate the neutron background. The gamma-ray detector was surrounded with a large NaI(Tl) annulus operated in the anticoincidence mode. The resulting spectra were unfolded and appropriate corrections were applied for neutron and gamma-ray attenuation, for electronic dead time, and for detector efficiency.