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Obtaining optimum exposure conditions for digital X-ray radiography of fresh nuclear fuel rods

Nazemi et al., 2019

Document ID
14905144666778895612
Author
Nazemi E
Rokrok B
Movafeghi A
Dastjerdi M
Dinca M
Publication year
Publication venue
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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X-ray radiography is widely used as a non-destructive method for defect detection and quality checks of nuclear fuel rod's components in the fabrication process. In this paper, an approach based on Monte Carlo method is proposed to obtain optimum filter and exposure …
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