NSDD Flavor Drills
The NSDD Flavor Drills are a series gamma spectroscopy problems meant to increase your knowledge and skills for analyzing field and laboratory data. The drills are produced by David J. Mercer, Jennifer Auxier, and other from Los Alamos National Laboratory, at the behest of DOE/NSDD.
January 2025
Please see one of the following documents for the questions:
- January 2025 Flavor LA-UR-24-33222.docx
- January 2025 Flavor LA-UR-24-33222.pdf
- Online form with automatic grading: here
Spectrum files referenced from the document are available in:
February 2025
Please see one of the following documents for the questions:
- February 2025 Flavor Drill LA-UR-25-21584.docx
- February 2025 Flavor Drill LA-UR-25-21584.pdf
- Note: the text in problem 7 will not copy from the PDF version correctly; you can instead click or copy this spectrum hyperlink.
- Online form with automatic grading: here
Spectrum files referenced from the document are available in:
- February 2025 Flavor Drill Files.zip
- February 2025 Flavor Drill Spectra CHN Format.zip
- November 2020 Flavor Drill Answers LA-UR-20-29807.docx
- March 2021 Flavor Drill Answers LA-UR-21-23546.docx
March 2026
Please see one of the following documents for the questions:
- March 2026 Flavor Drill LA-UR-26-21973.docx
- March 2026 Flavor Drill LA-UR-26-21973.pdf
- Online form with automatic grading: here.
Spectrum files referenced from the document are available in: