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NIST's cryogenic sensors resolve the X-ray lines that blur plutonium and uranium assay
Physicists at NIST used superconducting films held near absolute zero to measure X-rays from uranium, plutonium and neptunium in the band where they overlap the gamma rays used for material accounting. Existing gamma detectors can use the new reference values.
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