Nuclear Material Measurement Techniques and Equipment
The IAEA has its own experts and facilities, through its Safeguards Analytical Laboratory in Austria, experienced in sample measurement and analysis, including hundreds of samples from the 1990's Iraq inspections.
(Source: Dean Calma/IAEA)
Terms Included in this Chapter
- Alpha spectrometry
- Assay
- Bulk measurement
- Calibration
- Calorimetry
- Cerenkov radiation detection
- Chemical titration
- Controlled potential coulometry
- Destructive analysis (DA)
- Gamma ray scanning
- Gamma ray spectrometry
- Gas mass spectrometry
- Gravimetric analysis
- Isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS)
- K-edge densitometry
- Mass spectrometry
- Matrix
- Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL)
- Neutron coincidence counting
- Neutron counting
- Neutron multiplicity counter
- Non-destructive assay (NDA)
- Primary standard
- Random sampling
- Reference material
- Representative sample
- Resin bead technique
- Safeguards Analytical Laboratory (SAL)
- Sample
- Scintillation detector
- Secondary standard
- Semiconductor detector
- Systematic sampling
- Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS)
