Determining age of high-explosive to support nuclear warhead dismantlement verification.
(14)C abundance
Monte Carlo simulation
Nuclear warhead dismantlement
Source authentication of explosive
Journal
Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
ISSN: 1872-9800
Titre abrégé: Appl Radiat Isot
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306253
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2019
Jan 2019
Historique:
received:
26
07
2017
revised:
15
08
2018
accepted:
08
10
2018
pubmed:
28
10
2018
medline:
28
10
2018
entrez:
28
10
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The future international nuclear disarmament may involve the dismantlement of nuclear warheads. After the dismantlement of a nuclear warhead, the separated explosive needs authentication that it comes from the dismantled nuclear warhead. In this paper, the Monte Carlo numerical simulation method was used to study the feasibility and result of determining the source of the explosive by analyzing the nuclide abundances of the explosive and determining the age of the explosive (calculated since the explosive was placed in the nuclear warhead). First, the JMCT software was used to analyze the nuclei produced by the neutron reactions in the explosive of the nuclear warhead. As a result, it was found that
Identifiants
pubmed: 30368047
pii: S0969-8043(17)30896-5
doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2018.10.010
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
11-17Informations de copyright
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