• Title of article

    CharacterizationofneutronfieldintheexperimentalfastreactorJOYOforfuelandstructuralmaterialirradiationtestOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    TakafumiAoyama، نويسنده , , TakashiSekine، نويسنده , , ShiroTabuchi، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    14
  • From page
    21
  • To page
    34
  • Abstract
    TheexperimentalfastreactorJOYOhasbeenoperatedasanirradiationtestfacilityforfastreactorfuelandstructuralmaterialsince1983withitsMK-IIcore.Duringthistime,anextensivestudywasconductedtocharacterizetheneutronfieldinordertoassuretheaccuracyandreliabilityofneutronfluence.Neutronfluxforagivenirradiationtestwascalculatedusingacoremanagementcodesystembasedonthree-dimensionaldiffusiontheory.Itwasthencorrectedwiththeadjustedneutronspectrumbymeansofthemultiplefoilactivationmethod.Theneutronfluencecalculationaccuracyinthefuelregionwasevaluatedwithina5%errorbycomparingtheburn-upofspentfuelwiththemeasuredvalues,whichhadbeenobtainedfromtheirpost-irradiationexamination.Atpositionsawayfromthefuelregion,theneutronfluxdistributionwascalculatedusingatwo-dimensionaltransportcode.AMonteCarlocodewasalsousedtoanalyzethedetailedneutronfluxdistributionwithinanirradiationtestsubassemblythathadaheterogeneousinternalstructure.Withtheneutronfluxresultsvariousirradiationparameters,suchasdisplacementperatom(dpa)andheliumproduction,couldbeevaluated.Aheliumaccumulationfluencemonitorhasbeendevelopedtomeasurenotonlyneutronfluencebutalsoheliumproduction.Neutronfluxandfluenceobtainedfromthecoremanagementcalculationswerecompiledasadatabaseforusers’conveniencetogetherwithrelatedirradiationinformationandfuelsubassemblymaterialcompositions.Thesedataareexpectedtobewidelyusedinthepost-irradiationanalysisoffuelandstructuralmaterial.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894667