An241Am-Be source based thermal neutron activation analysis facility at KFUPM

A. Aksoy; M. N. Al-Haddad; A. A. Naqvi; K. Al-Nahdi

doi:10.1007/BF02037554

An²⁴¹Am-Be source based thermal neutron activation analysis facility at KFUPM

A. Aksoy^*
, M. N. Al-Haddad
, A. A. Naqvi
, K. Al-Nahdi

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

An instrumental thermal neutron activation analysis facility based, on a 16 Ci²⁴¹ Am-Be source, a high resolution γ-ray spectrometry setup and a PC-based data acquisition system at KFUPM is described. The thermal neutron flux distribution was determined from the induced activities of high purity indium foils. The absolute thermal neutron flux was calculated from the activities of bare and cadmium-covered gold foils at a position of 3 cm from the soource at which the flux reaches a maximum. The facility tests were carried out with the determination of manganese concentrations in six types of industrially important steel samples. The result of 1.33% manganese in SS-304 steel sample was in excellent agreement with the literature value. The method is nondestructive, economical and ideal for bulk analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	131-140
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Volume	181
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02037554
State	Published - Jun 1994

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Nuclear Energy and Engineering
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Pollution
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