{"id":891,"date":"2022-08-04T08:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2022-08-04T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:07:40","slug":"coping-with-plastic-scintillators-in-nuclear-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/coping-with-plastic-scintillators-in-nuclear-safeguards\/891.html","title":{"rendered":"Coping with Plastic Scintillators in Nuclear Safeguards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/Scintillators\/Plastic-Scintillators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Plastic scintillators<\/a><\/strong> offer several advantages for nuclear safeguards research and technology to those who design, assemble, encapsulate, and calibrate detectors from raw materials that are commercially available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These large, inexpensive detectors have good spatial uniformity and good high-energy gamma-ray response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uniform light collection is obtained with a light pipe attached to a polished plastic scintillator wrapped with aluminum foil. Best low-energy response is obtained by applying a variance analyzer to select the low-energy bias level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic scintillators offer several advantages for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shalomeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}