American Academic Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences
Abstract
Depleted Uranium (DU) is used for its very high density in civilian uses include radiation shielding in medical radiation therapy, industrial radiography equipment, containers used to transport radioactive materials. Absolute measurements have been performed for verification of uranium mass content in gamma radiography by using detector’s model developed with MCNP in nuclear safeguard inspection for these samples. Both the experimental results obtained as well as MCNP results are used to estimate the 238U mass content. The determined and the declared 238U masses values are found in an agreement with accuracy from -1.74 % to 1.80 %