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NRC engineers share their expertise at the University of Puerto Rico
Robert Roche-Rivera and Marcos Rolón-Acevedo are licensed professional engineers who work at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. They are also alumni of the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez (UPRM) and have been sharing their knowledge and experience with students at their alma mater since last year, serving as adjunct professors in the university’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. During the 2023–2024 school year, they each taught two courses: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear Power Plant Engineering.
Fateme Fahiman, Mahdi Kafaee, Ali Moussavi-Zarandi, and Meisam Fahiman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 187 | Number 1 | July 2014 | Pages 69-81
Technical Paper | Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT13-65
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In this work, a board based on a Spartan-3 field-programmable gate array was designed as a hardware prototyping platform for development of a multichannel digital gamma spectrometer. The device is compatible with various detectors like high-purity germanium, NaI, and CsI detectors. Before implementing the hardware, the method for digital signal processing for gamma spectroscopy was developed. The aim of this paper is to introduce a robust tool suitable for optimizing the design of complicated systems. The characteristics of this method, such as its ability to implement adaptive shaping, are investigated. The optimum conditions for digital filtering were determined using MATLAB/Simulink. This scheme can be useful for commercial production. Simulation was used to examine each processing unit in the whole signal processing procedure including cusplike shaping. The proposed method can be used as a computer design tool for optimizing digital multichannel analyzers or digital nuclear spectrometers.