The use of nuclear forensic library in order to identify unknown seized nuclear material. Brazilian’s participation in the galaxy serpent exercise
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60 YEARS OF IEA-R1: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH REACTORS
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Nuclear fission is governed by very well known physical laws which, under certain
circumstances, for instance: type of reactor, fuel and irradiation history, allow to preview
with high degree of confidence, the production of energy, the build up of fission
products and the transmutation of heavy metals. All these information, gathered in
a nuclear forensic library (NFL), can be an important tool during the identification of
a seized unknown sample, allowing to produce evidences concerning it’s irradiation
history, the type of reactor or even the origin of the sample. The usefulness of a
nuclear forensic library depending on not only the quantity or quality of the available
data, as well as the capacity of the investigators to identify, correlate, and interpret
the main parameters identified, or measured, in the seized sample. In this paper it
will be described the strategy adopted by the Brazilian’s team during the Galaxy Serpent
Exercise, coordinated by the Nuclear Forensics International Technical Working
Group on nuclear forensics, where a NFL was used to identify an unknown sample.
Our experience demonstrated the importance of the knowledge on nuclear reactions
to select the main parameters to be considered during the evaluation. Then, the
importance to use of simple isotopic correlations, to verify the consistency of the
available information, before to use a more complex multivariate statistical techniques
. Based on our investigation, the following questions were answered: Does
Clio reactor belong to the NFL? Is it possible to identify which class of reactor belongs
Clio? For the first question the answer is: Conclusive negative. For the second
question the answer is: suggestive positive to be a BWR reactor.
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SARKIS, J.E.S.; BORDON, I.C.A.C.; PESTANA, R.C.B. The use of nuclear forensic library in order to identify unknown seized nuclear material. Brazilian’s participation in the galaxy serpent exercise. In: 60 YEARS OF IEA-R1: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UTILIZATION OF RESEARCH REACTORS, November 28 - December 01, 2017, São Paulo, SP. Abstract... São Paulo, SP: Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares, 2017. p. 74-74. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ipen.br/handle/123456789/28776. Acesso em: 30 Dec 2025.
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