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Inkjet droplets of radioactive material enable quick, precise testing at NIST
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a technique called cryogenic decay energy spectrometry capable of detecting single radioactive decay events from tiny material samples and simultaneously identifying the atoms involved. In time, the technology could replace characterization tasks that have taken months and could support rapid, accurate radiopharmaceutical development and used nuclear fuel recycling, according to an article published on July 8 by NIST.
Makoto Senoh, Sakae Sugiyama, Masayoshi Sasaki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 72 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 321-327
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection and Health Physics Practices and Experience in Operating Reactors Internationally / Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33770
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Lighting and image-processing techniques for automatic fuel-number recognition in boiling water reactors (BWRs) are described. High-contrast images of fuel numbers are obtained for various types of fuel subassemblies by introducing shallow-angle lighting. Moreover, high-quality binary-valued images can be obtained by multidirectional lighting and character reconstruction techniques. These techniques are experimentally confirmed using test subassemblies. The multidirectional lighting is verified to be superior to unidirectional lighting in terms of its recognition rate and its applicability to an automatic fuel-number recognition system for BWRs.
