This two-part manual describes and provides instructions for installing software for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Pu-238 isotopic analysis system built for Westinghouse Hanford's Radioisotope Power Systems Facility. Part 1 contains descriptions of all the subroutines found in the main software program, WHC. ASY238. Also provided in this part are general instructions for modifying a subroutine and specific directions for relinking the WHC. ASY238 program, as well as information on the supporting program PU238. CHNG. Part 2 contains listings of the Pu-238 isotopic analysis system codes. The system uses a large (20% rel. efficiency), coaxial, n-type germanium detector (COAX). Parameter files for the detector have filenames with IS8 extensions. Spectral data files also have WH8 and I01, I02, etc. filename extensions.

This user's manual is addressed to the Savannah River Site personnel (routine operators and supervisors) who perform measurements with the Pu-238 isotopic analysis system. Each chapter begins with a table of contents that lists the section title, illustrations, and tabular data presented in that chapter. The first chapter in this manual is an introduction to the system. Chapter 2 lists required settings for the system's commercial nuclear instrument modules. System operating procedures are given in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 contains routine and supervisorial operator interactions. Chapter 5 describes the system's short- and long-printout output formats. Chapter 6 gives instructions for changing system parameters. Error messages are listed and described Chapter 7. Chapter 8 contains a reference article on measuring relative plutonium isotopics in plutonium samples enriched in Pu-238. All commercial items mentioned in this manual are assumed to be functioning correctly for the purposes of system operation. Users are referred to individual equipment manufacturers' manuals for details of operation, trouble-shooting, and maintenance of this commercial equipment.

We have designed and built a gamma-ray spectrometer system that measures the relative plutonium isotopic abundances of plutonium oxide enriched in 238Pu. The first system installed at Westinghouse Savannah River Company was tested and evaluated on plutonium oxide in stainless steel EP60/61 containers. 238Pu enrichments ranged from 20% to 85%. Results show that 200 grams of plutonium oxide in an EP60.61 container can be measured with {plus minus}0.3% precision and better than {plus minus}1.0% accuracy in the specific power using a counting time of 50 minutes. 3 refs., 2 figs.

This software manual is addressed to the Westinghouse Hanford's Radioisotope Power Systems Facility personnel (programmers and supervisors) who maintain the software on the Pu-238 isotopic analysis system. The document is divided into two parts. Part 1 describes the computer codes that control the system, analyze the spectral data, and determine the relative plutonium abundances. Part 2 contains the software listing of the analysis codes.

This software manual is addressed to the Westinghouse Hanford's Radioisotope Power Systems Facility personnel (programmers and supervisors) who maintain the software on the Pu-238 isotopic analysis system. The document is divided into two parts. Part 1 describes the computer codes that control the system, analyze the spectral data, and determine the relative plutonium abundances. Part 2 contains the software listing of the analysis codes.