Routine use of the COMPUCEA for EURATOM Safeguards verification of Uranium samples

Year
1998
Author(s)
W. Kloeckner - European Commission—Euratom Safeguards
Ute Blohm-Hieber - European Commission, European Safeguards Office
Philip Laurent - Institute for Transuranium Elements
Abstract
The COMPUCEA serves as a Safeguards infield instrument to analyse Uranium samples during routine inspections in LEU fabrication plants and as a routine analytical instrument for analysing Uranium product samples in the on-site laboratories located in reprocessing plants. The COMPUCEA was originally designed for the simultaneous assay of the U content and the 235U abundance in product solutions only, with a U concentration of > 200g/l and a target accuracy of