Published July 2017
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Book
Advances in the Development and Testing of Micro-Pocket Fission Detectors (MPFDs)
Creators
- 1. Semiconductor Materials and Radiological Technologies (S.M.A.R.T.) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University, 3002 Rathbone Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 (United States)
- 2. Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, 213 CBC Building, Manhattan, KS 66506-0401 (United States)
Description
A new method of fabricating micro-pocket fission detectors (MPFDs) has been developed. Deployable into iron-wire flux wells, MPFDs are neutron sensors capable of real-time, in-core flux measurements. A cyclic potential sweep method was used to deposit 0.1 ± 0.006 μg of natural U onto one 0.33-mm diameter Pt electrode on one face of the MPFD chamber. The MPFD was operated in the central thimble and IRIS flux wells of the KSU TRIGA Mk II nuclear reactor. The MPFD response was observed to be linear with respect to reactor power with no sign of dead time between 10 kWth and 700 kWth. The IRIS flux well was utilized to observe a $1.50 reactor pulse with a max power peak full width at half maximum of 12 ms. (author)
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA
- Imprint Place
- Vienna (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
- ISBN
- 978-92-0-105117-2
- Imprint Title
- Research Reactors: Safe Management and Effective Utilization. Summary of an International Conference. Companion CD-ROM
- Imprint Pagination
- [1 CD-ROM]
- Series
- Proceedings Series
- Journal Page Range
- 8 p.
- ISSN
- 0074-1884
Conference
- Title
- Safe Management and Effective Utilization
- Acronym
- International Conference on Research Reactors
- Dates
- 16-20 Nov 2015
- Place
- Vienna (Austria)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 49055366
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- NEUTRON DETECTORS; SENSORS; TESTING; TRIGA TYPE REACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; HYDRIDE MODERATED REACTORS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; SOLID HOMOGENEOUS REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 8 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.
- Secondary number(s)
- IAEA-CN--231-D.12