The detection of special nuclear material has been studied with the SMANDRA mobile inspection system used both as a high sensitivity passive neutron/gamma spectroscopic tool and as an active inspection device using tagged neutrons. The detection of plutonium samples is possible with passive interrogation, the passive detection of uranium being much more difficult because of the low neutron yield and of the easiness of shielding the gamma rays. However, we show that active interrogation with tagged neutrons is able to provide signatures for the discrimination of uranium against other materials. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.
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Cester, D., Nebbia, G., Stevanato, L., Viesti, G., Neri, F., Petrucci, S., … Tomanin, A. (2012). Special nuclear material detection studies with the SMANDRA mobile system. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1423, pp. 335–340). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3688822
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