Comparison of calculated and experimental dosimetry activities for benchmark neutron fields

Technical Report · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/433004· OSTI ID:433004

Griffin, P J

New dosimetry cross-section evaluations have been made available to the reactor community. Most dosimetry-quality evaluations include a section (File 33) that defines the uncertainty and covariance matrix for the dosimetry reaction cross section. This paper compares the latest computed cross-section activities for benchmark neutron fields with experimental data. Uncertainty data is usually reported with experimental measurements. This work also presents uncertainty data for the calculated activities. The calculated uncertainty values include a full uncertainty propagation using the cross-section evaluation, energy-dependent covariance data as well as the uncertainty attributed to the knowledge of the neutron spectrum.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 433004
• Report Number(s): SAND--97-0058C; CONF-9609243--8; ON: DE97002466
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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