Seminar: Gas Scintillator Neutron Detectors for Nuclear Science and Security

Helium-4 gas scintillator neutron detectors are under development. These fast neutron detectors provide the high counting efficiencies and ease of use of thermal neutron detection systems, while overcoming many of the limitations of liquid scintillators. Additionally, neutron spectral information detected by the gas scintillators can be used to maintain accountability of spent fuel in storage in support of used fuel safeguards and for the detection of fissile material to support minimizing proliferation risk. This talk will show some of the applications of these new detectors and recent results from ongoing experimental campaigns.

About the Speaker

Prof. Kelly Jordan, is Florida Power and Light Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Associate Chair for Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, and has been Director of the University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR) since 2011. Before coming to UF, he spent four years as an experimental reactor physicist at the PROTEUS reactor of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Dr. Jordan earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. His areas of specialization includes radiation detection, experimental reactor physics, nuclear safeguards and security, and facility management.

Hosted by Professor Lei R. Cao.