Enhanced micro-pocket fission detector for high temperature reactor evaluations - 259
- Idaho National Laboratory -INL- PO Box 1625, MS 3531 Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA 83415-3531 (United States)
- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Kansas State University -KSU- 3002 Rathbone Hall 1701A Platt Street Manhattan, KS 66506 (United States)
- Department of Nuclear Engineering Idaho State University -ISU- 921 S. 8th Ave Pocatello, ID 83209-8060 (United States)
- Commissariat a l'energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives CEA Cadarache - Batiment 238 F-13108 St Paul Lez Durance (France)
A collaboration between the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the Kansas State University (KSU), and the French Atomic Energy Agency, Commissariat a l'energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, (CEA), has been initiated by the Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies (NEET) Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation (ASI) program for developing and testing High Temperature Micro-Pocket Fission Detectors (HT MPFD), which are compact fission chambers capable of simultaneously measuring thermal neutron flux, fast neutron flux and temperature within a single package for temperatures up to 800 deg. C. The MPFD technology utilizes small, multi-purpose, robust, in-core fission chambers and can be configured with a thermocouple. The small size, variable sensitivity, and increased accuracy of the MPFD technology represent a revolutionary improvement over current methods used to support irradiations in US Material Test Reactors (MTRs). Previous research conducted through NEET ASI has shown that the MPFD technology could be made robust and was successfully tested in a reactor core. In addition, the accomplishments of this project have attracted independent funding from other Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) programs for MTR irradiations of the MPFD technology. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 23035371
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NPIC and HIMIT 2017: 10. International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, San Francisco, CA (United States), 11-15 Jun 2017; Other Information: Country of input: France; 15 refs.; available from American Nuclear Society - ANS, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La Grange Park, IL 60526 (US)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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