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To: coloradan; DBrow
Your reply got me interested enough to look it up. yes, a high-energy gamma photon can cause neutron ejection: Photoneutron
34 posted on 01/21/2013 11:29:50 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625; coloradan

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/7316590-E86RO8/7316590.pdf

The overall cross section for N14 is about 96 mb, but the threshold is pretty high, 24 MeV.

I guess a gamma ray pulse could do it, but at 24 MeV those photons would penetrate pretty deep, the primaries and secondaries would dose up the surface, I think.

I don’t have access to MCNP right now, that would give a clue.


35 posted on 01/21/2013 11:48:48 AM PST by DBrow
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