Annual Report on the Activities and Publications of the DHS-DNDO-NTNFC-Sponsored Post-doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory

This report is a summary update on the projects Magen Coleman is working on as a postdoctoral fellow funded by DHS. These research projects are designed to explore different radioanalytical facets of nuclear forensics, including destructive and non-destructive analysis, chronometry measurements and modeling, spectral analysis, and actinide separations. Method development and instrumental analysis are integral parts of these projects, along with strong radiochemical knowledge. The current projects discussed here include method development for sup 232U analysis, the assembly of a gamma mapping system, the testing of neutron bubble detectors for neutron spectrometry, and continued work on the chronometry of plutonium and uranium materials. This report documents the work that has been performed since April 2011.