The Llnl Nuclear Chemistry Automated Production Counting Facilities: Design and Implementation

Livermore's Nuclear Counting Facilities Upgrade Project was undertaken to replace outdated instrumentation and data and resource control mechanisms. The specification and design of a facilities system for data collection, data flow, and control, from instrumentation to the generation of reports, are discussed. The authors show how a collection of scientific experiments, responsible for production acquisition and handling of data from radiation detection and mass spectroscopy, may be automated.