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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
H. O. Menlove, J. E. Swansen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 71 | Number 2 | November 1985 | Pages 497-505
Technical Paper | Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/NT85-A33701
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A new, high-performance neutron time correlation, or coincidence, counter has been developed for the measurement of nuclear materials. This detector is an improvement over the high-level neutron coincidence counter that was used previously in that it has better counting rate capability, electronic stability, noise resistance, uniform counting zone, and portability. The system uses 3He gas tubes coupled to the shift register coincidence electronics through a new hybrid charge-sensitive preamplifier/discriminator. Counting rates of 1.3 MHz have been obtained and a counting stability of 0.002% has been measured. The system has been applied to the assay of plutonium content in metal, PuO2, and PuF4, as well as in uranium-plutonium mixtures.