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Sampling and Data-Taking Strategies in X-Ray Fluorescence Assay of Low S/N Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Claude R. Hudgens
Claude R. Hudgens*
Affiliation:
Monsanto Research Corporation Mound* Miamisburg, Ohio 45342
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This project was Initiated for the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility of on-line x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis for the nondestructive assay of fissile elements (SNM) in reactor fuel reprocessing (dlssolver) solutions, using wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence analysis because of its high immunity to the intense gamma emissions of the solutions. A prime objective of this project was the identification and dimensioning of.the parameters critical to XRF assays of high accuracy. The concepts presented herein, though directed primarily to assay of solutions with emphasis on low signal-to-noise conditions and low count rates, are applicable to all assays of solids, slurries, and gases.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 29: Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 5-9, 1985 , 1985 , pp. 485 - 492
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1985

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