Gamma Radiation from Fission Products

Abstract

An analytical study was made to determine the gamma radiation produced by the products of a fission device. The radiation during times from . 10 sec to 2 min after fission was of special interest. Fission yield data were gathered for 5 fuels (fission spectra U235, U238, and Pu239; and 14 MeV spectra U235 and U238). Decay data were gathered for the fission products of these fuels. A computer program was written to process the data which produced quantitative energy and number rates of interest in fission product gamma radiation analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0777842

Entities

People

  • Ronald B. Drinkwater

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircrafts
  • Atoms
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fission Products
  • Flight Training
  • Gamma Decay
  • Gamma Rays
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Solar Physics