Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel

The safeguards verification of spent nuclear fuel is one of the major concern for the safeguards community, as this material represents about 80% of all material placed under safeguards.This PhD thesis described the development of two passive non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques: the Self-Indicati...

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Main Author: Rossa, Riccardo
Other Authors: Labeau, Pierre-Etienne
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/238202
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spelling ndltd-ulb.ac.be-oai-dipot.ulb.ac.be-2013-2382022018-04-11T17:38:13Z info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel Rossa, Riccardo Labeau, Pierre-Etienne Pauly, Nicolas Capel, Pierre Dubus, Alain Borella, Alessandro Schillebeeckx, Peter Peerani, Paolo Universite Libre de Bruxelles Université libre de Bruxelles, Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles – Physicien, Bruxelles 2016-09-30 en The safeguards verification of spent nuclear fuel is one of the major concern for the safeguards community, as this material represents about 80% of all material placed under safeguards.This PhD thesis described the development of two passive non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques: the Self-Indication Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD) and the Partial Defect Tester (PDET).The NDA methods were investigated with Monte Carlo simulations and the benchmark experiments for SINRD were performed at the GELINA facility of JRC-IRMM in Geel, Belgium.The results for the SINRD technique showed promising results for the direct quantification of 239Pu in spent fuel, and both techniques gave encouraging results for the detection of partial defects. Sciences de l'ingénieur Génie nucléaire nuclear safeguards SINRD PDET non-destructive assay spent fuel Monte Carlo Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur et technologie info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/238202 No full-text files
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topic Sciences de l'ingénieur
Génie nucléaire
nuclear safeguards
SINRD
PDET
non-destructive assay
spent fuel
Monte Carlo
spellingShingle Sciences de l'ingénieur
Génie nucléaire
nuclear safeguards
SINRD
PDET
non-destructive assay
spent fuel
Monte Carlo
Rossa, Riccardo
Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
description The safeguards verification of spent nuclear fuel is one of the major concern for the safeguards community, as this material represents about 80% of all material placed under safeguards.This PhD thesis described the development of two passive non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques: the Self-Indication Neutron Resonance Densitometry (SINRD) and the Partial Defect Tester (PDET).The NDA methods were investigated with Monte Carlo simulations and the benchmark experiments for SINRD were performed at the GELINA facility of JRC-IRMM in Geel, Belgium.The results for the SINRD technique showed promising results for the direct quantification of 239Pu in spent fuel, and both techniques gave encouraging results for the detection of partial defects. === Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur et technologie === info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
author2 Labeau, Pierre-Etienne
author_facet Labeau, Pierre-Etienne
Rossa, Riccardo
author Rossa, Riccardo
author_sort Rossa, Riccardo
title Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
title_short Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
title_full Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
title_fullStr Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
title_full_unstemmed Advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
title_sort advanced non-destructive methods for criticality safety and safeguards of used nuclear fuel
publisher Universite Libre de Bruxelles
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/238202
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