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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
Thomas E. Blue, T. Courtney Roberts, Rolf F. Barth, Joseph W. Talnagi, Fazlul Alam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 77 | Number 2 | May 1987 | Pages 220-226
Technical Paper | Radioisotopes and Isotope Separation | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A33986
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Calibration curves are determined for measuring the concentration of 10B in the blood of rats using an autoradiographic procedure, with the polycarbonate solid-state nuclear track detector CR-39 and an image analysis system for automatic track counting. The calibration curves indicate that for the etch procedure used, the nitrogen concentration in the blood is an important interfering input for 10B concentration measurements. By discriminating against small tracks, the sensitivity to the blood nitrogen concentration can be reduced to the point that a variation in the nitrogen weight fraction of 0.01 gN/g blood causes a variation in the predicted 10B concentration of 0.3 µg 10B/ml blood.
