XIAO Caijin, ZHANG Guiying, YUAN Guojun, et al. Study on standard decay curve method in uranium determination by delayed neutron counting
[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(12): 120204
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XIAO Caijin, ZHANG Guiying, YUAN Guojun, et al. Study on standard decay curve method in uranium determination by delayed neutron counting
[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2015, 38(12): 120204 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2015.hjs.38.120204.
Study on standard decay curve method in uranium determination by delayed neutron counting
Background: Delayed neutron counting (DNC) is a rapid and accurate uranium determination method applied in many fields
such as geology
materials
and nuclear safeguards. Purpose: Usually the method is done as following
one sample is irradiated by reactor neutrons for 60 s
then transferred to a position waiting for delayed neutron counting
which starts after 30 s from the end of irradiation for a counting time of 60 s. The routine of DNC may lead to some problems. For example
when the uranium concentration of a sample is very high
some delayed neutron counts would be lost. On the contrary
when the uranium concentration of a sample is too low
the counting statistics would be very poor. Methods: A standard curve method was proposed to solve the problem. Results & Conclusion: Preliminary experiments show that this method is suitable for the determinations of uranium in samples with a wide range of uranium concentrations. Abstract
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The improvement in the determination of trace uranium by repeating activation and delayed neutron counting: The determination of the uranium content of multicrystalline and monocrystalline silicon samples
The improvement of the measurement device for determination of the uranium content by delayed neutron counting
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