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Collaborators. University of California, BerkeleyS.G. Prussin, V. Mozin, R. CrabbsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)B. LudewigtLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)S. Tobin, G. McKinney, L. Waters. Outline. Nuclear Resonance FluorescenceWhat is it? How can it be used for assay? S
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1. Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Radioactive Materials Assay Brian Quiter
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Nuclear Engineering
2. Collaborators University of California, Berkeley
S.G. Prussin, V. Mozin, R. Crabbs
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
B. Ludewigt
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
S. Tobin, G. McKinney, L. Waters
3. Outline Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence
What is it? How can it be used for assay?
Specific problems:
Age-dating radioactive sources
Calculations indicate NRF can be used to measure time since separation from fission products of ~kCi 137Cs sources.
Spent nuclear fuel
Coherent scattering of photons from high-Z material provides too strong a background to directly measure NRF signals from most actinides.
Nuclear resonance fluorescence is being added to ENDF databases
Other elastic processes are needed