The reports of The International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements for a number of years have been published by the National Bureau of Standards in the Handbook series. In the past, each of the triennial reports of the ICRU represented a complete restatement of the recomuiendations of the Commission. Because of the increasing scope of its activities, however, the Commission in 1…
The term nondestructive assay (NDA) is applied to a series of measurement techniques for nuclear fuel materials. The techniques measure radiation induced or emitted spontaneously from the nuclear material; the measurements are nondestructive in that they do not alter the physical or chemical state of the nuclear material. NDA techniques are characterized as passive or active depending on whethe…
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