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[en] This report analyses the use and qualification of miniature fission chambers for two types of neutron measurements: 1) relative measurements in nuclear power reactors, or nuclear irradiation reactors. We consider the problem of burnable fissile material in detectors, under important neutron exposures and conclude on recommending the use of regenerating neutron detectors. 2) Measurements of integral physical parameters in experimental reactors. This method has been applied to measurements of fission rates in detectors with strong alpha-rays emitter deposits in order to establish standard tables of physical parameters. It has been used in particular for detectors including very radioactive actinium series. After a discussion of the instrumentation choice and data processing, specific to each measurements, we provide results on: 1) the technological and neutron behaviour of regenerating miniature fission chambers, in the swimming pool reactor 'TRITON', under a neutron exposure of 7.1020 n cm-2 and a gamma-rays exposure of 1,5.1011 rads about. The fissile material is 235U and the fertile material 234U. 2) The integral measurements of effective cross sections for 241Am and 238Pu in the experimental reactor 'MINERVE' use for study of problems of fast neutron reactors
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Ce travail traite de l'utilisation et de la qualification de chambres a fission miniatures pour deux types de mesures neutroniques: 1) Mesures relatives de flux dans les reacteurs de puissance ou d'irradiation. Le probleme etudie est celui de la combustion de la matiere fissile des depots pour des fluences importantes. La solution proposee est l'utilisation de depots regenerables. 2) Mesures integrales de parametres physiques dans les piles experimentales. Plus precisement, mesure des taux de reaction dans des depots fort emetteurs alpha realises a partir d'actinides tres radioactifs. Faisant suite a l'expose du choix de l'instrumentation et du traitement de l'information specifiques a chacune de ces mesures; les resultats publies concernent: 1) l'etude du comportement technologique et neutronique, sous irradiation dans le reacteur piscine TRITON, pour une fluence neutronique de 7.1020 n cm-2 et un debit de dose gamma de 1.108 rads.heure, de chambres a fission miniatures a depot regenerable compose de 234U et 235U; 2) les mesures integrales des sections efficaces effectives de fission du 251Am et du 238Pu dans le reacteur MINERVE, dans des reseaux de la filiere a neutrons rapides. pour la mise a jour de formulairesOriginal Title
Mesures neutroniques effectuees avec des chambres a fission miniatures
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May 1978; 252 p; These (D. Univ.).
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ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, AMERICIUM ISOTOPES, EPITHERMAL REACTORS, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, HEAVY NUCLEI, IONIZATION CHAMBERS, ISOTOPES, MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NEUTRON DETECTORS, NUCLEAR REACTIONS, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES, RADIATION DETECTORS, RADIATION FLUX, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS, SPECTRA, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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