Add to ORKGA terrorist attack using an improvised nuclear device is one of the most serious dangers facing the United States. The work presented here is an effort to improve nuclear deterrence by developing a methodology to attribute weapons-grade plutonium to a source reactor by measuring the intrinsic physical characteristics of the interdicted plutonium. The reactor source attribution methodology attempted here used measurements and analysis of plutonium samples (along with the fission-product contaminants) produced from depleted uranium dioxide samples irradiated in a fast neutron environment. In order to replicate the neutron flux in a fast-spectrum reactor and obtain experimental samples emulating weapons-grade plutonium produced in the blanket ...
Within the U.S. arsenal, 32 accidents with nuclear weapons were reported between 1950 and 1980. One ...
An integral part of deterring nuclear terrorism is the swift attribution of any event to a particula...
AbstractA simple and rapid spectrophotometric method has been developed to enable the determination ...
The growing nuclear threat has heightened the need for developing nuclear forensics analysis techniq...
The objective of this thesis work is to utilize computational models to reliably predict the intrins...
The growing nuclear threat has heightened the need for developing nuclear forensics analysis techniq...
A nuclear terrorist attack is one of the most serious threats to the national security of the United...
A nuclear terrorist attack is one of the most serious threats to the national security of the United...
Pre- and post-detonation nuclear material require chemical analysis that is rapid, precise, and in s...
Several forensic analyses have been performed on irradiated UO2 and weapons usable Pu to discriminat...
An experimental validation of a nuclear forensics methodology for the source reactor-type discrimina...
Several forensic analyses have been performed on irradiated UO2 and weapons usable Pu to discriminat...
This work integrates analysis techniques common to destructive nuclear forensics and non-destructive...
This thesis investigates the ability of a high-purity germanium detector to perform post-detonation ...
This work integrates analysis techniques common to destructive nuclear forensics and non-destructive...
Within the U.S. arsenal, 32 accidents with nuclear weapons were reported between 1950 and 1980. One ...
An integral part of deterring nuclear terrorism is the swift attribution of any event to a particula...
AbstractA simple and rapid spectrophotometric method has been developed to enable the determination ...
The growing nuclear threat has heightened the need for developing nuclear forensics analysis techniq...
The objective of this thesis work is to utilize computational models to reliably predict the intrins...
The growing nuclear threat has heightened the need for developing nuclear forensics analysis techniq...
A nuclear terrorist attack is one of the most serious threats to the national security of the United...
A nuclear terrorist attack is one of the most serious threats to the national security of the United...
Pre- and post-detonation nuclear material require chemical analysis that is rapid, precise, and in s...
Several forensic analyses have been performed on irradiated UO2 and weapons usable Pu to discriminat...
An experimental validation of a nuclear forensics methodology for the source reactor-type discrimina...
Several forensic analyses have been performed on irradiated UO2 and weapons usable Pu to discriminat...
This work integrates analysis techniques common to destructive nuclear forensics and non-destructive...
This thesis investigates the ability of a high-purity germanium detector to perform post-detonation ...
This work integrates analysis techniques common to destructive nuclear forensics and non-destructive...
Within the U.S. arsenal, 32 accidents with nuclear weapons were reported between 1950 and 1980. One ...
An integral part of deterring nuclear terrorism is the swift attribution of any event to a particula...
AbstractA simple and rapid spectrophotometric method has been developed to enable the determination ...