Safeguards assessment of gamma-ray detection for process monitoring at natural uranium conversion facilities
Conversion, the process by which natural uranium ore (yellowcake) is purified and converted through a series of chemical processes into uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6), has historically been excluded from the nuclear safeguards requirements of the 235U-based nuclear fuel cycle. With each step in the co...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51794 |