Peter Andersson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Applied Nuclear Physics
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 225 69 63
- E-mail:
- peter.andersson@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Peter Andersson conducts research on nuclear instrumentation and measurement techniques. His work focuses on innovative neutron and gamma-ray techniques for non-destructive characterization of complex objects. Applications include nuclear disarmament verification and post-irradiation examination of nuclear fuel.

Publications
Selection of publications
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Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
- DOI for Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
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2025
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2022
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Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, p. 88-97, 2017
- DOI for A computerized method (UPPREC) for quantitative analysis of irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies with gamma emission tomography at the Halden reactor
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Part of Geant4 simulation results for the designed UGET-v1 tomographic measurement device., 2016
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Part of Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014
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Recent publications
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Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
- DOI for Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
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2026
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Part of Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2026
- DOI for Credible fission gas release calibration: A hierarchical Metropolis-Hastings-within-Gibbs approach to address model inadequacy
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Irreversible Disablement as a Prelude to Disarmament
2026
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
- DOI for Determining the minimum detectable activity of coincidence HPGe γ-ray spectrometers using simulation tools
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
- DOI for Delayed Phase Neutron Energy (DAPHNE) analysis for discrimination of fissile and fertile uranium
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Part of Nuclear Engineering and Design, 2026
- DOI for Credible fission gas release calibration: A hierarchical Metropolis-Hastings-within-Gibbs approach to address model inadequacy
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
- DOI for Determining the minimum detectable activity of coincidence HPGe γ-ray spectrometers using simulation tools
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Modeling Plutonium Production in the Experimental Light Water Reactor of North Korea
Part of Science and Global Security, p. 68-88, 2025
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Study of Load-Following Operation Impact on Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance using TRANSURANUS
Part of Frontiers in Energy Research, 2025
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Part of Data in Brief, 2025
- DOI for Timestamped list-mode data from coincidence γ-ray spectrometry with HPGe detectors on air-filter samples
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Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2024
- DOI for Model inadequacy in fuel performance code calibration: Derivative-based parameter uncertainty inflation
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Part of Nuclear Technology, p. 532-541, 2024
- DOI for First experimental demonstration of the use of a novel planar segmented HPGe detector for gamma emission tomography of mockup fuel rods
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2023
- DOI for Multi-parameter Optimization of Gamma Emission Tomography Instruments for Irradiated Nuclear Fuel Examination
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Plutonium Production under Uranium Constraint
Part of Science and Global Security, p. 115-136, 2023
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Passive methods for spent fuel characterisation at the Finnish geological repository
Part of Nuovo cimento della societa italiana de fisica. C, Geophysics and space physics, 2023
- DOI for Passive methods for spent fuel characterisation at the Finnish geological repository
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2023
- DOI for Experimental evaluation of the performance of a novel planar segmented HPGe detector for use in gamma emission tomography
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Performance evaluation of a novel gamma transmission micro-densitometer for PIE of nuclear fuel
Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2023
- DOI for Performance evaluation of a novel gamma transmission micro-densitometer for PIE of nuclear fuel
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Treating model inadequacy in fuel performance model calibration by parameter uncertainty inflation
Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022
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Part of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, p. 703-713, 2022
- DOI for A computational methodology for estimating the detected energy spectra of the gamma-ray flux from irradiated nuclear fuel
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Part of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, p. 714-721, 2022
- DOI for Calculation of Spatial Response of a Collimated Segmented HPGe detector for Gamma Emission Tomography by MCNP Simulations
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2021
- DOI for Geometrical optimisation of a segmented HPGe detector for spectroscopic gamma emission tomography: A simulation study
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2021
- DOI for Evaluation of gamma-ray transmission through rectangular collimator slits for application in nuclear fuel spectrometry
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Part of SN Applied Sciences, 2020
- DOI for Simulation of the response of a segmented High-Purity Germanium detector for gamma emission tomography of nuclear fuel
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The degradation of gamma-ray mass attenuation of UOX and MOX fuel with nuclear burnup
Part of Progress in nuclear energy (New series), 2020
- DOI for The degradation of gamma-ray mass attenuation of UOX and MOX fuel with nuclear burnup
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, p. 85-91, 2018
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, p. 67-78, 2018
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Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, p. 88-97, 2017
- DOI for A computerized method (UPPREC) for quantitative analysis of irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies with gamma emission tomography at the Halden reactor
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Part of ESARDA Bulletin, p. 10-28, 2017
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Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, p. 886-895, 2017
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A neutron source for IGISOL-JYFLTRAP: Design and characterisation
Part of European Physical Journal A, 2017
- DOI for A neutron source for IGISOL-JYFLTRAP: Design and characterisation
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, p. 99-108, 2016
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2016
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Applying image analysis techniques to tomographic images of irradiated nuclear fuel assemblies
Part of Annals of Nuclear Energy, p. 223-229, 2016
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, p. 82-93, 2014
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Characterization of a Be(p,xn) neutron source for fission yields measurements
Part of Nuclear Data Sheets, p. 416-418, 2014
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Part of Review of Scientific Instruments, 2014
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Correction for dynamic bias error in transmission measurements of void fraction
Part of Review of Scientific Instruments, p. 125110, 2012
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Fragment-mass distributions in neutron-induced fission of 232Th and 238U at 33, 45, and 60 MeV
Part of Physical Review C. Nuclear Physics, 2011
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Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, p. 110-116, 2011
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Comprehensive licentiate thesis
Conference papers
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2026
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Irreversible Disablement as a Prelude to Disarmament
2026
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On Improving Nuclear Fuel Imaging Using Position Sensitive Detectors
Part of FINNISH NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 2025 Proceedings, 2025
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Technical Verification of Nuclear Disarmament at the Alva Myrdal Centre
2025
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2025
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Addressing Model Inadequacy In Fuel Performance Model Calibration Using Mh-Within-Gibbs Sampling
2024
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Calibration of Fuel Performance Modelling Using Metropolis-Hastings-Within-Gibbs
Part of TopFuel 2024, p. 365-372, 2024
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2024
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2024
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Exploring methods to reconstruct historic reactor operation
Part of Alva Myrdal Centre AMC Annual conference 2024, 18-19 June, 2024., 2024
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Modelling fissile production in the Experimental Light Water Reactor (ELWR) of DPRK
Part of Alva Myrdal Centre AMC Annual conference 2024, 18-19 June, 2024, 2024
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Part of TopFuel 2022 Light Water Reactor Fuel Performance Conference, p. 375-381, 2023
- DOI for Surrogate Modeling with Derivative Prediction for Implementation in Inverse Uncertainty Quantification Methods for Fuel Performance Modeling
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2023
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2022
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2022
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A technical view on Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme
2022
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Non-proliferation and safeguards activities within the Alva Myrdal Centre for nuclear disarmament
Part of Proceedings of the Symposium on International Safeguards: Reflecting on the Past and Anticipating the Future, 2022
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Coincidence spectroscopy for increased sensitivity in radionuclide monitoring
2022
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Part of SIAM 2022, p. 6-6, 2022
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2021
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Feasibility study of gamma-ray micro-densitometry for the examination of nuclear fuel swelling
2021
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Part of ND 2019, 2020
- DOI for Gamma spectroscopy methodology for large amounts of environmental samples in Sweden 30 years after the Chernobyl accident
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2019
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Inspection of LOCA Test Rod IFA-650.16 Using Gamma Emission Tomography
2019
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Gamma Emission Tomography for Nuclear Fuel Diagnostics
2019
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Gamma Emission Tomography of LOCA-transient test rods
2017
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2017
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2017
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Quantitative Gamma Emission Tomography Inspection of LOCA rod IFA-650.15
Part of EHPG, 2017
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Gamma Emission Tomography Measurements of Fuel Assemblies at the Halden Reactor
Part of LWR Fuels with Enhanced Safety and Performance Meeting (Top Fuel 2016), p. 1601-1611, 2016
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Inspection of a LOCA Test Rod at the Halden Reactor Project using Gamma Emission Tomography
Part of Top Fuel 2016 - LWR Fuels with Enhanced Safety and Performance, 2016
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Monte Carlo simulations of a Universal Gamma-Ray Emission Tomography Device
2015
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2015
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p. 202-209, 2015
- DOI for Neutron Tomography Using Mobile Neutron Generators for Assessment of Void Distributions in Thermal Hydraulic Test Loops
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2015
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Characterization of a Be (p, xn) neutron source for fission yields measurements
2014
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Measurement of the energy spectrum from the neutron source planned for IGISOL
Part of Proceedings of the ERINDA Workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 October 2013, CERN-Proceedings-2014-002, p. 39-45, 2014
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Target thickness dependence of the Be(p,xn) neutron energy spectrum
Part of INPC 2013 - INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS CONFERENCE, VOL. 2, p. 11032, 2014
- DOI for Target thickness dependence of the Be(p,xn) neutron energy spectrum
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Part of EFNUDAT, 2010
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Neutron tomography for void distribution measurements
Part of ENC 2010 Transactions, p. 40-45, 2010
Manuscripts (preprints)
Reports
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Analys av Minsta Detekterbara Aktivitet i gamma-koincidensspektrometern GeCo
2025
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Position-sensitive detectors for gamma ray imaging
2025
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Serpent modelling of pressurized heavy water CANDU reactors
2023
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2022
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2022
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IAEA Tomography Challenge Report
2019
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2019
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Inspection of LOCA Test Rod IFA-650.16 Using Gamma Emission Tomography
2018
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2016
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Part of Geant4 simulation results for the designed UGET-v1 tomographic measurement device., 2016
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Inspection of LOCA Test Rod IFA-650.15 Using Gamma Emission Tomography
2016
Other
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Kärnkraftssäkerhet i Ukraina efter 2022
2024
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Att tillverka ett kärnvapen - Hur svårt är det?
2022
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2021
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2021
- Download full text 1 (pdf) of Spent fuel characterization research at Uppsala University: Presented at kick-off meeting for IAEA CRP on spent fuel characterisation, 2021-02-16
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Att vara forskare - Presentation för Ekuddenskolan ÅK 2
2020
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2019
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Notes on the world energy supply
2017
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2016