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Technical Safeguards Terminology
- Purpose, Objective, and Scope of IAEA Safeguards
- Safeguards Approaches, Concepts, and Measures
- Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Material: Basic Terms
- Nuclear and Nuclear-Related Activities and Installations
- Nuclear Material Accountancy
- > > Nuclear Material Measurement Techniques and Equipment
- 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)
- Containment, Surveillance, and Monitoring
- Environmental Sampling
- Safeguards Information and Evaluation
- Physical Protection Systems
- Threats to Nuclear Security
- Index of Terms
Scintillation detector
A device which responds to incident gamma rays or neutrons by emitting light scintillations. The most common scintillator for gamma rays is sodium iodide (NaI); for neutrons, a variety of organic and inorganic liquid and solid scintillators can be employed.
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- Nuclear and Nuclear-Related Activities and Installations
- Nuclear Material Accountancy
- > > Nuclear Material Measurement Techniques and Equipment
- 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)
- Containment, Surveillance, and Monitoring
- Environmental Sampling
- Safeguards Information and Evaluation
- Physical Protection Systems
- Threats to Nuclear Security
- Index of Terms
