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An analysis of pressurized heavy water reactor fuel for nuclear safeguards applications using muon scattering tomography

Erlandson et al., 2021

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13133876151925053318
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Erlandson A
Anghel V
Godin D
Jewett C
Thompson M
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Journal of Instrumentation

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Abstract Muon Scattering Tomography (MST) relies on multiple Coulomb scattering (MCS) of high energy cosmic ray muons in matter to reconstruct 2D and 3D images of targets of interest. Targets such as nuclear fuel and containers for spent nuclear fuel are difficult or …
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