In-plant Measurements of Gamma-ray Transmissions for Precise K-edge and Passive Assay of Plutonium Concentration and Isotopic Abundance in Product Solutions at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant

In-plant Measurements of Gamma-ray Transmissions for Precise K-edge and Passive Assay of Plutonium Concentration and Isotopic Abundance in Product Solutions at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant
Title In-plant Measurements of Gamma-ray Transmissions for Precise K-edge and Passive Assay of Plutonium Concentration and Isotopic Abundance in Product Solutions at the Tokai Reprocessing Plant PDF eBook
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A field test has been carried out for more than 2 years for determination of plutonium concentration by K-edge absorption densitometry and for determination of plutonium isotopic abundance by transmission-corrected passive gamma-ray spectrometry. This system was designed and built at Los Alamos National Laboratory and installed at the Tokai reprocessing plant of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation as a part of the Tokai Advanced Safeguards Technology Exercise (TASTEX). For K-edge measurement of plutonium concentration, the transmissions at two discrete gamma-ray energies are measured using the 121.1- and 122.1-keV gamma rays from 75Se and 57Co. Intensities of the plutonium passive gamma rays in the energy regions between 38 and 51 keV and between 129 and 153 keV are used for determination of the isotopic abundances. More than 200 product solution samples have been measured in a timely fashion during these 2 years. The relative precisions and accuracies of the plutonium concentration measurement are shown to be within 0.6% (1 sigma) in these applications, and those for plutonium isotopic abundances are within 3% for 238Pu, 0.4% for 239Pu, 1.2% for 24°Pu, 1.3% for 241Pu, and 7% for 242Pu. The time required is 10 min for the concentration assay, 10 min for the isotopics assay, and about 15 min for handling procedures in the laboratory.

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Title Energy Research Abstracts PDF eBook
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Pages 1696
Release 1982
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Title Nuclear Safeguards Technology, 1982 PDF eBook
Author International Atomic Energy Agency
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Release 1983
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