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L. R. Bunney, D. Sam
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 29 | Number 3 | September 1967 | Pages 432-443
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE67-A17292
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experimental measurements of the gamma-ray pulse-height distributions due to the products of fast-neutron-induced fission of 235U and 238U are presented. The measurements were made at nine selected times, ¼, ½, 1, 2, 5, 10, 24, 48, and 72 h after fission. Irradiation times and counting intervals were chosen to minimize saturation and decay effects. The experimental data were used to calculate 100 energy bin distributions of the absolute number of photons/(fission sec) by means of absolute calibrations of the collimated NaI(Tl) detector. The number of fissions in each sample was determined radiochemically. Machine computation was used extensively.
