Search Results - "McIntyre, Justin I"
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Possible impacts of molten salt reactors on the International Monitoring System
Published in Journal of environmental radioactivity (01-08-2021)“…Molten salt reactors (MSRs) are gaining support as many countries look for ways to increase power generation and replace aging nuclear energy production…”
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A review of the developments of radioxenon detectors for nuclear explosion monitoring
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-11-2017)“…Developments in radioxenon monitoring since the implementation of the International Monitoring System are reviewed with emphasis on the most current…”
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In the nuclear explosion monitoring context, what is an anomaly?
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-04-2024)“…In the early years of nuclear explosion monitoring, experts used downwind detections with meaningful ratios of radioactive species to identify an explosion…”
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Radioxenon net count calculations revisited
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-08-2019)“…Since 1998, there have been improvements in the capability to detect atmospheric radioxenon in the International Monitoring System operated by the Preparatory…”
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Injection and sampling of 133Xe in shallow boreholes in alluvium
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (2022)“…We present an overview of a small-scale tracer migration experiment that was carried out in July 2018 at the Nevada National Security Site. This experiment…”
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Discrimination of Nuclear Explosions against Civilian Sources Based on Atmospheric Xenon Isotopic Activity Ratios
Published in Pure and applied geophysics (01-05-2010)“…A global monitoring system for atmospheric xenon radioactivity is being established as part of the International Monitoring System that will verify compliance…”
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Anticoincidence analysis for radioxenon detection
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-10-2018)“…An algorithm was developed to improve the quantification of metastable isotopes in the presence of 133 Xe. Radioxenon emissions are commonly used to monitor…”
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Estimates of radioxenon released from Southern Hemisphere medical isotope production facilities using measured air concentrations and atmospheric transport modeling
Published in Journal of environmental radioactivity (01-09-2014)“…The International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive-Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty monitors the atmosphere for radioactive xenon leaking from underground…”
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Direct low-energy measurement of 37Ar and 127Xe in a radiotracer gas using low-background proportional counters
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (2018)“…A radiotracer gas with a blend of 37 Ar and 127 Xe was created for a gas migration experiment and was characterized at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…”
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Measurements of radioxenon in ground level air in South Korea following the claimed nuclear test in North Korea on October 9, 2006
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-12-2009)“…Following the claimed nuclear test in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on October 9, 2006, and a reported seismic event, a mobile system for…”
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Source term estimates of radioxenon released from the BaTek medical isotope production facility using external measured air concentrations
Published in Journal of environmental radioactivity (01-10-2015)“…BATAN Teknologi (BaTek) operates an isotope production facility in Serpong, Indonesia that supplies 99mTc for use in medical procedures. Atmospheric releases…”
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Real-time stack monitoring at the BaTek medical isotope production facility
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-04-2016)“…Radioxenon emissions from fission-based radiopharmaceutical production are a major source of background concentrations affecting the radioxenon detection…”
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Further developments of a robust absolute calibration method utilizing beta/gamma coincidence techniques
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-05-2013)“…Performing accurate and verifiable measurements is often the most challenging goal for any radiation detector and is especially challenging for the radio-xenon…”
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Degradation of 81 keV Xe gamma-rays into the 31 keV X-ray peak in CsI scintillators
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (01-12-2009)“…Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses beta-gamma coincidence detectors in a number of xenon sampling and measurement systems to enable simultaneous,…”
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Sensor analytics: radioactive gas concentration estimation and error propagation
Published in Statistics & probability letters (15-04-2007)“…This paper develops a statistical representation of the process of estimating the number of radioactive atoms in a sample of gas. The modeled process is…”
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Stilbene cell development to improve radioxenon detection
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-04-2019)“…A prototype stilbene beta cell has been designed, manufactured, tested, and compared to a plastic scintillator beta cell used for nuclear explosion monitoring…”
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Validation of MCNPX-PoliMi code for simulations of radioxenon beta–gamma coincidence detection
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (21-10-2018)“…Radioxenon detection is an important component of the verification regime for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. We developed and validated a new model…”
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Source Term Analysis of Xenon (STAX): An effort focused on differentiating man-made isotope production from nuclear explosions via stack monitoring
Published in Journal of environmental radioactivity (01-12-2022)“…An overview of the hardware and software developed for the Source Term Analysis of Xenon (STAX) project is presented which includes the data collection from…”
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Correction to: In the nuclear explosion monitoring context, what is an anomaly?
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A review of the developments of radioxenon detectors for nuclear explosion monitoring
Published in Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry (27-09-2017)“…Developments in radioxenon monitoring since the implementation of the International Monitoring System are reviewed with emphasis on the most current…”
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