Determination of Long-Lived Neutron Activation Products in Reactor Shielding Concrete Samples
| Autor: | Tomaz Zagar, Matjaz Ravnik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Radionuclide Chemistry 020209 energy Radiochemistry 02 engineering and technology Condensed Matter Physics TRIGA 020303 mechanical engineering & transports 0203 mechanical engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering Electromagnetic shielding 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Neutron Research reactor Nuclide Cobalt-60 Neutron activation |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Technology. 140:113-126 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7471 0029-5450 |
| DOI: | 10.13182/nt02-a3327 |
| Popis: | The results of activation studies of TRIGA research reactor concrete shielding are given. Samples made of ordinary and barytes concrete were irradiated in the reactor to simulate neutron activation in the shielding concrete. Long-lived neutron-induced gamma-ray-emitting radioactive nuclides were measured in the samples with a high-purity germanium detector. The most active long-lived radioactive nuclides in the ordinary concrete samples were found to be 60Co and 152Eu. In the barytes concrete samples, the most active long-lived radioactive nuclides were 60Co, 133Ba, and 152Eu. Activation in the concrete was also calculated using the ORIGEN2 code and compared to experimental results. Simple radioactive nuclide generation and depletion calculation using one-group cross-section libraries provided together with the ORIGEN2 code did not give conservative results. Significant discrepancies were observed for some nuclides. For accurate long-lived radioactive nuclide generation in reactor shielding, mater... |
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