• Title of article

    MeasurementofkineticparametersinthefastsubcriticalcoreMASURCAOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    PeterBaeten، نويسنده , , HamidA??tAbderrahim، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    223
  • To page
    232
  • Abstract
    IntheMUSEsharedcostactionoftheEuropeanFifthFrameworkProgrammeasurementshavebeenperformedtoinvestigatetheneutronicbehaviorofthefastsubcriticalcoreMASURCAcoupledwiththeGENEPIaccelerator.Theaimistoexaminetheapplicabilityofdifferentmeasurementtechniquesforthedeterminationofthemainkineticparameters.ThemeasurementofRossi-alphadistributions,recordedwiththeacceleratorturnedoff,showedthattheanalysisoftheobtaineddistributionsisfeasiblefordeepsubcriticallevels,butwithstronglydeterioratedstatistics.FromRossi-alphadistributions,recordedwiththepulsedneutronsourceinoperation,thealphadecayconstantwaseasilyderivedduetogoodstatisticsonthecorrelatedsignalresultingfromthestrongintensityoftheneutronpulse.Whenapplyingthepulsedneutronsourceanalysis,thereactivity(indollars)togetherwiththeratioofthemeanneutronlifetimelandtheeffectivedelayedneutronfractionβeffisimmediatelyderived.Althoughthesefirstresultsareverypromising,furthermeasurementsareneededtoqualifythemethodatlargersubcriticallevelswhicharerepresentativeforfutureADS.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894735