Title :
A compact, transportable IVA concept for intense pulsed active detection
Author :
Corcoran, P.A. ; Smith, I.D. ; Altes, R.G. ; Stevens, R.A. ; McGlathery, D.D. ; Pearce, J.W. ; Allen, R.J. ; Commisso, R.J. ; Cooperstein, G. ; Hegeler, Frank ; Schumer, J.W. ; Sethian, John D.
Author_Institution :
Pulse Sci., L-3 Commun., San Leandro, CA, USA
Abstract :
Intense pulsed active detection (IPAD) has been proposed as a means of detecting contraband fissile material using an intense bremsstrahlung pulse to induce photofission. (S.B. Swanekamp, et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 58, 2011, pp. 2047-2056; also see presentations at this conference by B.V. Weber, et al., S.B. Swanekamp, et al., and J.C. Zier, et al.) A number of pulsed power technologies were evaluated for this application including the linear induction accelerator (LIA) and the linear transformer driver (LTD) before selecting the induction voltage adder (IVA) for further study, as described by I.D. Smith et al., also at this conference. An important factor for the I VA choice in this particular exercise is that research and development be minimized if there were to be a design and construction effort.
Keywords :
bremsstrahlung; linear accelerators; nuclear materials safeguards; photofission; pulsed power technology; bremsstrahlung pulse; contraband fissile material; induction voltage adder; intense pulsed active detection; linear induction accelerator; linear transformer driver; photofission; pulsed active detection; pulsed power technologies; research and development; transportable IVA concept; Cavity resonators; Hardware; Laboratories; Materials; Oil insulation; Power transformer insulation; Tablet computers;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2013 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2013.6635105
