APUS 1.0 : program for calculating isotope composition and age of plutonium based on HPGemeasurements

Authors:

  • Sune Westman
  • Henrik Ramebäck

Publish date: 2008-11-10

Report number: FOI-R--2575--SE

Pages: 24

Written in: Swedish

Keywords:

  • Plutonium
  • isotope composition
  • age
  • gamma ray spectrometry

Abstract

This report presents the software APUS for the determination of isotopic composition and age of plutonium measured with high resolution gamma spectrometry. Spectrum must have been evaluated using a spectrum deconvoluting technique in order to get areas for the relevant full-energy peaks. The program is semi-automatic, which means that the analysis report from a spectrum analysis performed with GammaVision is opened in APUS, which then performs all calculations. The program was validated against results from the software PC/FRAM. The advantage with APUS is that the user does not have to be an expert on a program dedicated for isotopic composition measurements, or analysis, of plutonium.