Commissariat a L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives

Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Orano Mining

Jean-Luc Ma

Bertrand Perot

Hervé Toubon

Joel Loridon

Alain Marini

Michel Latu

Cédric Carasco

Thomas Marchais

Romain Goupillou

A method for assessing the mass concentration of uranium in a sample of uranium-bearing material by gamma spectrometry, includes a) acquiring () an energy spectrum of gamma radiation from the sample using a scintillator detector, the energy spectrum () comprising at least a first energy band () between 87 keV and 110 keV, and a second energy band () between 560 keV and 660 keV, the second energy band comprising at least one energy line () at 609 keV fromBi, b) calculating () an initial mass concentration of uranium (Cm) using the energy spectrum, c) measuring () a parameter representative of the height of the sample and a parameter representative of the density of the sample, d) calculating () a corrective coefficient (K), and e) calculating () a corrected mass concentration of uranium (Cm) using the initial mass concentration of uranium (Cm) and the corrective coefficient (K).

Method for assessing the concentration of uranium in a sample by gamma spectrometry, and associated device

The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for compacting binary informations, then reconstructing and processing them in delayed time or with a time lag. It consists of compacting the binary informations by posting during a given cycle informations received on several channels and then associating non-zero information sums with memory channel numbers. It then consists solely of reconstructing the useful informations by coding them in cycle table form. Applied to nuclear fission, this invention consists of delayed time processing of tables in order to determine the proportion of neutrons induced by a fission and neutrons coming from other reactions.

Process and apparatus for compacting informations to be stored and

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