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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
John S. Neal, Knoxville, TN (US);
John T Mihalczo, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
John S. Neal, Knoxville, TN (US);
John T Mihalczo, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-Battelle LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A system for detecting fissile and fissionable material originating external to the system includes: aLi loaded glass fiber scintillator for detecting thermal neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays; a fast scintillator for detecting fast neutrons, x-rays and gamma rays, the fast scintillator conjoined with the glass fiber scintillator such that the fast scintillator moderates fast neutrons prior to their detection as thermal neutrons by the glass fiber scintillator; and a coincidence detection system for processing the time distributions of arriving signals from the scintillators.