Many references have been published for analyzing fission product mixtures by the gamma-ray spectrometry.
Though they simplify more both time and procedure for analyzing vastly than the radiochemical separations methods, tedious processing for decomposition of spectra into components or delicate instrumental devices for automatic removing unfavorable pulses in photo-peaks are required to obtain quantative results of the composition.
The method written here is less elegant, but more simple and easier than the methods pre-mentioned. The processing consists of three parts.
In the first stage of processing, the gamma-ray spectra of the samples are compared with the standard gamma-ray spectra which are predicted by the calculation and examined by the observation of known fission products. Being or not of specific peaks on the spectra and relative height of the peaks are the principal guides for deduction of apparent ages of samples.
In the second stage of processing, the published charts or tables of relative abundances of fission products as functions of time after fission are used to determine the composition of the samples.
In the third stage of processing, the absolute activities of individual radionuclides are calculated from measured gamma counting rates of samples by the following equation:
a(t)=n(t)·A(t)/N(t)
a(
t): activity of individual radionuclide in the sample (dps)
n(
t): measured gamma counting rate of the sample (cps)
A(
t): activity of individual fission product predicted by the calculation (dphr/100fiss.)
N(
t): gamma counting rate of fission product mixture predicted by the calculation (cphr/100fiss.)
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