**Meet the editor**

Dr. Lylia Alghem Hamidatou has been the director of the Nuclear Techniques and Applications Division and a senior research scientist at the Nuclear Research Centre of Birine CRNB, Algerian Atomic Energy Atomic Commission COMENA, since 1997.

In September 2017, she was elected as a new member of the k0-International Scientific Committee. She was

granted "Habilitation" accreditation to direct research in April 2014. In 2010, she was awarded with a distinction for her doctoral degree in Nuclear Physics at the University of Ferhat Abbes of Sétif-Algeria. Her research interests include neutron activation analysis (NAA), development and application of several techniques such as k0-NAA and radiochemical NAA, and cyclic-delayed neutron counting. In 2008, she won the Young Scientist Award in recognition of her early career achievements in nuclear analytical chemistry by the International Committee on Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences at NAMLS-9 in Lisbon, Portugal. She has published more than 45 articles in various international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Her research interests are focused on the development of the PGAA method at the Es-Salam research reactor, the study of several types of matrices using k0-NAA and relative methods (major and trace elements determination in Algerian Alzheimer's, psoriatic, and breast cancer patients), toxic and essential elements in seeds and medicinal plants, and rare earth elements in geological samples (rocks, clays, marble, sediments, etc.). She has participated in many IAEA\_RAF regional projects to assess the analytical performance of the Algerian Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory at CRNB.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Medicine 15** Maitreyee Nandy

**Reactor IAN-R1 29**

**Activation Foils 55**

**Section 1 Recent Applications of Neutron Activation Analysis 1**

Chapter 2 **Neutron Activation Analysis: Application in Geology and**

Chapter 3 **Colombian Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory (CNAAL):**

Chapter 4 **Monte Carlo Simulation of Correction Factors for Neutron**

Pham Ngoc Son and Bach Nhu Nguyen

**Section 2 Neutron Activation Systems and Technologies 69**

Chapter 5 **Neutron Activation System for ITER Tokamak 71**

**Analysis, at CDTN, Brazil 89**

**Applications and Development Using the Nuclear Research**

Porras, Martha Guzmán, Nelson Acero and Mauricio López

Vitaly Krasilnikov, MunSeong Cheon and Luciano Bertalot

Chapter 6 **An Overview of the Establishment of Methodology to Analyse up to 5g-Sample by k0-Instrumental Neutron Activation**

Maria Ângela de B.C. Menezes and Radojko Jaćimović

Guillermo Parrado, David Alonso, Julián Orozco, Mary Peña, Andrés

Chapter 1 **Overview of Neutron Activation Analysis 3**

Lylia Alghem Hamidatou
