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Determining the amount, chemical form, physical shape, and multiplication of the fissile material in an unknown assembly is a challenging problem that is of great importance in a number of national security contexts. The discrimination of plutonium in metal versus oxide form in special nuclear materials is crucial and yet remains a challenge for current methods. It has previously been shown that the...