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Neutron fluence measurement in nuclear facilities.; Medicion de flujos de neutrones en instalaciones nucleares.

Abstract

The objective of present work is to determine the fluence of neutrons in nuclear facilities using two neutron detectors designed and built at Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ), Mexico. The two neutron detectors are of the passive type, based on solid state nuclear tracks detectors (SSNTD). One of the two neutron detectors was used to determine the fluence distribution of the ports at the nuclear research reactor TRIGA Mark III, which belongs to ININ. In these facilities is important to know the neutron fluence distribution characteristic to carried out diverse kind of research activities. The second neutron detector was employed in order to carry out environmental neutron surveillance. The detector has the property to separate the thermal, intermediate and fast components of the neutron fluence. This detector was used to measure the neutron fluence at hundred points around the primary container of the first Mexican Nuclear Power plant `Laguna Verde`. This last detector was also used to determine the neutron fluence in some points of interest, around and inside a low scattering neutron room at the `Centro de Metrologia de Radiaciones Ionizantes` of the ININ, to know the background neutron field produced by the neutron sources used there. The  More>>
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 01, 1997
Product Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Report Number:
INIS-MX-018
Reference Number:
SCA: 440100; PA: AIX-28:076315; EDB-97:145904; SN: 97001880668
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Thesis (M. in Sci.).; PBD: 1997
Subject:
44 INSTRUMENTATION, INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS; NEUTRON FLUENCE; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; TRIGA-3-SALAZAR REACTOR; CALIBRATION; DIELECTRIC TRACK DETECTORS; GOLD 197; INTERACTIONS; MATTER; NEUTRON DETECTORS; RADIATION MONITORING
OSTI ID:
546411
Research Organizations:
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico). Facultad de Quimica
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Language:
Spanish
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE98605939; TRN: MX9700064076315
Availability:
INIS; OSTI as DE98605939
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
122 p.
Announcement Date:
Dec 10, 1997

Citation Formats

Camacho L, M E. Neutron fluence measurement in nuclear facilities.; Medicion de flujos de neutrones en instalaciones nucleares.. Mexico: N. p., 1997. Web.
Camacho L, M E. Neutron fluence measurement in nuclear facilities.; Medicion de flujos de neutrones en instalaciones nucleares.. Mexico.
Camacho L, M E. 1997. "Neutron fluence measurement in nuclear facilities.; Medicion de flujos de neutrones en instalaciones nucleares." Mexico.
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title = {Neutron fluence measurement in nuclear facilities.; Medicion de flujos de neutrones en instalaciones nucleares.}
author = {Camacho L, M E}
abstractNote = {The objective of present work is to determine the fluence of neutrons in nuclear facilities using two neutron detectors designed and built at Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ), Mexico. The two neutron detectors are of the passive type, based on solid state nuclear tracks detectors (SSNTD). One of the two neutron detectors was used to determine the fluence distribution of the ports at the nuclear research reactor TRIGA Mark III, which belongs to ININ. In these facilities is important to know the neutron fluence distribution characteristic to carried out diverse kind of research activities. The second neutron detector was employed in order to carry out environmental neutron surveillance. The detector has the property to separate the thermal, intermediate and fast components of the neutron fluence. This detector was used to measure the neutron fluence at hundred points around the primary container of the first Mexican Nuclear Power plant `Laguna Verde`. This last detector was also used to determine the neutron fluence in some points of interest, around and inside a low scattering neutron room at the `Centro de Metrologia de Radiaciones Ionizantes` of the ININ, to know the background neutron field produced by the neutron sources used there. The design of the two neutron detector and the results obtained for each of the surveying facilities, are described in this work. (Author).}
place = {Mexico}
year = {1997}
month = {Dec}
}