Experimental study on the measurement of uranium casting enrichment by time-dependent coincidence method

Based on the time-dependent coincidence method, a preliminary experiment has been performed on uranium metal castings with similar quality (about 8-10 kg) and shape (hemispherical shell) in different enrichments using neutron from Cf fast fission chamber and timing DT accelerator. Groups of related parameters can be obtained by analyzing the features of time-dependent coincidence counts between source-detector and two detectors to characterize the fission signal. These parameters have high sensitivity to the enrichment, the sensitivity coefficient (defined as (ΔR/Δm)/R) can reach 19.3% per kg of ²³⁵U. We can distinguish uranium castings with different enrichments to hold nuclear weapon verification.     

主动中子多重性法估算铀材料质量的不确定性（英文）

近年来,国际社会对核材料保护、控制和衡算日益加强。对不明材料损失量(MUF)的关注逐渐提升。铀材料质量不确定性测量在估算铀材料生产量中扮演重要角色。由于铀材料自发裂变相对较弱,主动中子多重性法被应用于估算铀材料质量。通过拟合对不同系列铀金属壳的数值模拟结果,获得了描述铀材料质量与主动中子多重性特征之间的算法和参数。得到的关系表明,可以通过分析不同重数中子多重性探测结果获得铀部件的质量。对不同探测条件下的模拟结果的定量分析,确定了探测系统设置对铀质量估算的影响,以及认知不确定性和随机不确定在估算过程中传播对质量估算的影响。对不确定度的分析获得了本文模拟采用的探测系统的最佳源强和探测时间窗设置,在此设置下,质量估算的不确定性最小。