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Portal Monitor for Diversion Safeguards

Thomas E. Sampson, Paul E. Fehlau, Gary M. Worth, Carl N. Henry

Nuclear Technology / Volume 23 / Number 2 / August 1974 / Pages 124-131

Technical Paper / Nuclear Safeguards (Presented at November 1973 Meeting) / Safeguard / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31445

Two prototype doorway monitors to deter the diversion of special nuclear materials have been designed and constructed. One prototype utilizes plastic scintillators while the other contains NaI(Tl) detectors. Both prototypes utilize a unique digital, sliding interval, warning logic module.