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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) is currently seeking qualified candidates to fill an open committee member position. Applications for the position will be accepted until July 30. The ACRS is the world’s oldest organization devoted to reactor safety, and the group reports directly to the NRC’s commissioners in order to provide independent technical reviews of and advice on a wide variety of nuclear topics.
G. Schulze, H. Würz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 3 | October 1977 | Pages 663-670
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31875
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A determination of fissile material concentration in high-level radioactive solutions can be accomplished by measuring the source multiplication of an external neutron source. Computer calculations and laboratory experiments were used to demonstrate the applicability of the method to fissile material solutions containing unknown quantities of homogeneous neutron poison materials. A relation between the fissile material concentration Cfiss and the quantities thermal and epithermal leakage neutron fluxes measured with 235U fission chambers is derived. The accuracy obtained using a 252Cf neutron source of source strength 5 × 108 n/s, a measuring time interval of 20 s, and assuming Cfiss to be at least twice the minimum detectable concentration is better than 30%. This is adequate for application of the method for process control of pulsed columns in reprocessing plants.