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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.
Nader M. A. Mohamed, M. Abou Mandour, M. K. Shaat, Alya A. Badawi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 153 | Number 3 | March 2006 | Pages 360-364
Technical Note | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3713
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A method was proposed to transfer the efficiency of gamma-ray spectrometers calibrated with a standard water source to suit other samples. In our method, it is not important to know the concentration of the major elements of the sample to be measured. This gives a special importance to our method for low-energy photon detection where the self-absorption is strongly material dependent.
