[1N01-06] Engineering and Design for Nuclear Fusion (Plasma Engineering, Irradiation Behavior of Material)

[1N01] Characterization of the Portable IEC Chamber for the SNM Interrogation System

*Mahmoud AbdelAziem Bakr¹, Kai Masuda¹, Tsuyoshi MISAWA², Yoshiyuki TAKAHASHI², Norio YAMAKAWA⁴, Masaya YOSHIDA³, Atsushi MATSUDA⁴, Kiyoshi YOSHIKAWA¹ (1. Institute of Advanced Energy Kyoto University , 2. Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, 3. Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, 4. Pony Industry Co. Ltd)

Keywords:Special nuclear materials, Inertial electrostatic confinement, Tensioned metastable fluid detector, Threshold energy neutron analysis

The first portable active interrogation system for special nuclear materials (SNM), such as U-235 and Pu-239, is being developed by our group. The system employs an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device as a neutron source. The first prototype of the IEC device, with 17 cm chamber diameter (IEC17), has been fabricated, assembled and is being tested. Preliminary results from the first portable chamber will be presented in this paper.