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RE: switchable neutron sources
Mike,
I think that the reference should be to "Sb-BE" in this case, it would be an
antimony-beryllium source. I just figured it was a typo.
Joe DeMers
CH2M Hill Hanford Group, Inc
Richland WA
509-376-7781
joseph_W_(joe)_demers@rl.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael McNaughton [mailto:mcnaught@lanl.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:17 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: switchable neutron sources
At 03:09 PM 10/31/00 -0600, you wrote:
>SrBe comes to mind - LOTS of very hard gammas however!!
>Cook the Sr with a neutron source and then slip it into a Be sleeve.
Ted
how does this work, how does SrBe produce neutrons?
Thanks, mike
Mike McNaughton
Los Alamos National Lab.
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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