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Fluorescent X-Ray Analysis of Highly Radioactive Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

James I. Mueller
Affiliation:
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Hot Cell Facility, Livermore, California
Vincent G. Scotti
Affiliation:
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Hot Cell Facility, Livermore, California
John J. Little
Affiliation:
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Hot Cell Facility, Livermore, California
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Abstract

This paper describes the use of lead shielding and pulse height discrimination as aids in reducing the background counts due to radioactive samples. The samples under study in this work have radioactive levels up to 40 R/hr. at 17 centimeters combined β + γ.

Data are presented to illustrate the tiffectiveness of shielding and pulse height discrimination individually and combined.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1958

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