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What’s in your Dubai chocolate? Nuclear scientists test pistachios for toxins
For the uninitiated, Dubai chocolate is a candy bar filled with pistachio and tahini cream and crispy pastry recently popularized by social media influencers. While it’s easy to dismiss as a viral craze now past its peak, the nutty green confection has spiked global pistachio demand, and growers and processors are ramping up production. That means more pistachios need to be tested for aflatoxins—a byproduct of a common crop mold.
H. CONDÉ, N. STARFELT
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 11 | Number 4 | December 1961 | Pages 397-404
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A26041
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Using a large liquid scintillator as the fission neutron detector the number of prompt neutrons per fission, ν, for Th232 and U238 have been measured at neutron energies of 3.6 and 14.9 Mev. The values for U238 of 2.79 ± 0.09 and 4.75 ± 0.12 are in good agreement with earlier accurate measurements while the Th232 values of 2.42 ± 0.10 and 4.43 ± 0.13 agree with the results of Kuzminov et al. and of Leroy but not so well with that of Smith et al. The parameters of the equation (En) = (0) + a·En, where En is the neutron energy in Mev, have been obtained by fitting a straight line to the available data using the least mean square method yielding (En) = 1.87 + 0.177 En for Th232 and (En) = 2.30 + 0.154 En for U238.
