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Santi, Peter A.; Browne, Michael C.; Williams, Richard B.; Parker, Robert F.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States). Funding organisation: US Department of Energy (United States)2009
Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States). Funding organisation: US Department of Energy (United States)2009
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[en] The Dual Slab Verification Detector (DSVD) has been developed and built by Los Alamos National Laboratory in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as part of the dry storage safeguards system for the spent fuel from the BN-350 fast reactor. The detector consists of two rows of 3He tubes embedded in a slab of polyethylene which has been designed to be placed on the outer surface of the dry storage cask. The DSVD will be used to perform measurements of the neutron flux emanating from inside the dry storage cask at several locations around each cask to establish a neutron 'fingerprint' that is sensitive to the contents of the cask. The sensitivity of the fingerprinting technique to the removal of specific amount of nuclear material from the cask is determined by the characteristics of the detector that is used to perform the measurements, the characteristics of the spent fuel being measured, and systematic uncertainties that are associated with the dry storage scenario. MCNPX calculations of the BN-350 dry storage asks and layout have shown that the neutron fingerprint verification technique using measurements from the DSVD would be sensitive to both the amount and location of material that is present within an individual cask. To confirm the performance of the neutron fingerprint technique in verifying the presence of BN-350 spent fuel in dry storage, an initial series of measurements have been performed to test the performance and characteristics of the DSVD. Results of these measurements will be presented and compared with MCNPX results.
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1 Jan 2009; 13 p; 50. Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management; Tucson, AZ (United States); 12-16 Jul 2009; LA-UR--09-3480; AC52-06NA25396; Available from http://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-09-03480; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/989785-UxBrli/
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BARYONS, CONTAINERS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY SOURCES, EPITHERMAL REACTORS, FERMIONS, FUELS, HADRONS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, MATERIALS, NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUCLEAR FUELS, NUCLEONS, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, ORGANIC POLYMERS, POLYMERS, POLYOLEFINS, RADIATION FLUX, REACTOR MATERIALS, REACTORS, STORAGE, US DOE, US ORGANIZATIONS
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