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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Moses A. Greenfield, Roscoe L. Koontz, Alan A. Jarrett
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 4 | Number 4 | October 1958 | Pages 563-569
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A28832
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The method for computing absolute thermal neutron flux from measurements made with activated indium foils is described. By combining data from the counting rate of indium foils in 2π proportional counters with appropriate corrections for foil weights and neutron effects, the thermal flux is expressed in terms of σO, the thermal absorption cross section of In115. This procedure may be used by laboratories which do not have access to a standard graphite pile or to a standard neutron source. This method has an estimated error of less than 5% which is a function of the accuracy with which it is possible to determine the various correction factors for beta counting. A possible fixed error in the value of σO can easily be corrected for and incorporated into the methods used.