Assay of Alternative Nuclear Materials

An attractive proposal is to combine U, Pu, Am verifications by HKED with a simple DA measurement of Np/Pu ratios (Ottmar et al. 2001) at spent fuel reprocessing and Pu fuel fabrication plants (O Pig. 63.27). 

A review of nonconventional methods (Rosenberg 1992) concludes that IGPMS can be the most attractive and versatile instrument as it already is in environmental analyses (Varga et al. 2006), when combined with modern chromatographic separations (Vajda et al. 2009). 

Proposed scheme for the control of alternative nuclear materials at a spent fuel reprocessing plant with the HKED (Ottmar et al. 2001) 

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