Accurate quantification of tritium at low levels in water streams is both a regulatory and environmental necessity for the nuclear industry. The most widely used current method is liquid scintillation counting (LSC), which measures the beta-radiation emitted from tritium decay and can therefore be used to indirectly quantify the concentration of tritium. This is a relatively laborious off-line...
Recent simulation and experimental results have demonstrated that hard x-ray sources (>1 MeV) from laser-plasma wakefield accelerated (LWFA) electrons can generate a small source x-ray source for radiography. Other laser-plasma x-rays sources have been shown to be of a high enough quality to demonstrate phase contrast imaging (PCI). This project aims at bringing together these two important...
Active interrogation of shielded special nuclear material (SNM) for nuclear security applications has been the focus of a great deal of work since the beginning of the century by agencies worldwide. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) alongside the UK Government have maintained a programme to develop active interrogation techniques and technologies for border security since 2008. In this...
.The Consortium of Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities (CNEC) is an alliance of 10 US universities and 4 US national laboratories led by North Carolina State University. The consortium is sponsored by the US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development (DNN R&D, a.k.a. NNSA NA-22) as one part of NA-22’s Integrated...
