Configuration of an alpha-gamma coincidence spectrometer for utilization of safeguards measurements

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2088-2091

  Breitenecker, Katharina ^a   Donohue, David ^a   Eisenwagner, Hugo ^a   Maddison, Andrew P ^a   Siegmund, Herbert ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha gamma coincidence; Coincidence measurements; Linear gate; Major and minor actinoides

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-GAMMA COINCIDENCE; ANALYTICAL LABORATORIES; COINCIDENCE MEASUREMENTS; GAMMA EMITTING RADIONUCLIDES; INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; LINEAR GATE; LINEAR GATES; MAJOR AND MINOR ACTINOIDES; TIME CONSTANTS;

COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; LABORATORIES; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES;

SPECTROMETRY;

AMERICIUM 241; PLUTONIUM 239;

ALPHA RADIATION; ALPHA RADIATION SPECTROMETRY; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; SPECTROMETER; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 70349792664     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.04.022     Document Type: Article

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