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IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 55:614-619
Intense pulsed radiation fields emitted from sealed tube neutron generators provide a challenge for modern health physics survey instrumentation. The spectral sensitivity of these survey instruments requires calibration under realistic field conditio
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D.R. Norman, Frank Harmon, James T. Johnson, Scott M. Watson, Calvin E. Moss, B.W. Blackburn, J.L. Jones, Alan W. Hunt, K.J. Haskell
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 579:353-356
The Idaho National Laboratory, in collaboration with Idaho State University's Idaho Accelerator Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, continues to develop the Pulsed Photonuclear Assessment (PPA) technique for shielded nuclear material detec
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 261:839-844
Prompt Gamma Ray Neutron activation analysis can offer significant cost and safety advantages in the identification of explosives and toxic chemicals. As an example, the US military examined over a thousand suspect chemical munitions with Idaho Natio
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D.R. Norman, Allen Fisher, B.W. Blackburn, Alan W. Hunt, Mark Balzer, J.L. Jones, K.J. Haskell, Scott M. Watson
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 261:913-917
As many pulsed photonuclear assessment (PPA) technologies are being developed for contraband detection within cargo container configurations, the radiation safe operation of linacs for outdoor operations needs to be addressed. Idaho National Laborato
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B.W. Blackburn, J.L. Jones, Frank Harmon, D.R. Norman, Alan W. Hunt, James T. Johnson, Scott M. Watson, K.J. Haskell, R. Spaulding
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 261:316-320
Pulsed photonuclear interrogation environments generated by 8–24 MeV electron linac are rich with time-dependent, material-specific, radiation signatures. Nitrogen-based explosives and nuclear materials can be detected by exploiting these signature
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J.L. Jones, B.W. Blackburn, James T. Johnson, John T. Mihalczo, Alan W. Hunt, C. E. Moss, Frank Harmon, Scott M. Watson
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 261:341-346
The pulsed photonuclear assessment (PPA) technique, which has demonstrated the ability to detect shielded nuclear material, is based on utilizing delayed neutrons and photons between accelerator pulses. While most active interrogation systems have fo
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SPIE Proceedings.
Simulations and experiments have been carried out to explore using a plastic scintillator as a dosimetry probe in the vicinity of a pulsed bremsstrahlung source in the range 4 to 20 MeV. Taking advantage of the tissue-equivalent properties of this de
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J.L. Jones, B.W. Blackburn, Scott M. Watson, Robert W. Flammang, David L. Chichester, John G. Seidel, James T. Johnson, Frank H. Ruddy
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DOE / OSTI
Current requirements of some Homeland Security active interrogation projects for the detection of Special Nuclear Material (SNM) necessitate the development of faster inspection and acquisition capabilities. In order to do so, fast detectors which ca
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B.W. Blackburn, C. E. Moss, Kiril D. Ianakiev, Craig W. McCluskey, R.B. Williams, James T. Johnson, Alan W. Hunt, Boian S. Alexandrov, Paul Hausladen, John T. Mihalczo, J.L. Jones
Publikováno v:
2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
Active interrogation with pulsed bremsstrahlung beams can saturate detectors and produce high count rates of overlapping pulses in the prompt region (
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B.W. Blackburn, G. Kohse, V. Ziskin, Gongyin Chen, W. Franklin, B. Mcallister, D.R. Perticone, E. Ihloff, Richard C. Lanza
Publikováno v:
2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
We present new experimental evidence supporting the technique of fast neutron resonance radiography (NRR). Using a set of neutron attenuation images collected at several different neutron energies, the images can be transformed into a set of elementa