combination of plutonium sensitivity and gamma insensitivity creates a potential to
directly measure the plutonium content in spent fuel. In the case of a severe nuclear
accident, knowing the content nuclear contamination will aid decision makers in
making science-driven decisions on how to better recover.
Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Karl van Bibber, Adam Bernstein, and
Steven Dazeley for their mentorship and infinite patience. This material is based upon work
supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant
No. DE-NA0000979.
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directly measure the plutonium content in spent fuel. In the case of a severe nuclear
accident, knowing the content nuclear contamination will aid decision makers in
making science-driven decisions on how to better recover.
Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Karl van Bibber, Adam Bernstein, and
Steven Dazeley for their mentorship and infinite patience. This material is based upon work
supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant
No. DE-NA0000979.
References
1. International Atomic Energy Agency, Preliminary Summary Report: The IAEA International
Peer Review Mission on Mid-and-Long-Term Roadmap Towards the Decommissioning of
TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stations Units 1–4, Tokyo and Fukushima
Prefecture, Japan (2015)
2. IAEA Team Completed Third Review of Japan’s Plans to Decommission Fukushima Daiichi.
International Atomic Energy Agency, 17 Feb 2015, Web
3. M.M. Pickrell, The IAEA workshop on requirements and potential technologies for
replacement of helium-3 detectors in IAEA safeguards applications. J. Nucl. Mater. Manag.
41(2), 14–29 (2013)
4. D.A. Shea, D. Morgan, The helium-3 shortage: supply, demand, and options for congress,
Congressional Research Service (2010). www.crs.gov
5. S.J. Tobin, et al., Next generation safegaurds initiative research to determine the Pu mass in
spent fuel assemblies: purpose, approach, constraints, implementation, and calibration. NIMA
652, 73–75 (2011)
6. S. Dazeley, A. Asghari, A. Bernstein, N. Bowden, V. Mozin, A water-based neutron detector
as a well multiplicity counter. NIMA 771(0), 32–38 (2015). doi:http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/j.
nima.2014.10.028
7. G.S. Mitchell, R.K. Gill, D.L. Boucher, C. Li, S.R. Cherry. doi:10.1098/rsta.2011.0271
(Published 28 November 2011)
8. S. Dazeley, et al., Performance characterization of a water-based multiplicity counter, in 55th
INMM Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. 2014 (for a Journal or Transactions Summary. Trans.
Am. Nucl. Soc. 98, 1200 (2008))
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and
indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not
included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by
statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from
the copyright holder.
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