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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 106, 2016
ISRD 15 – International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry
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| Article Number | 05013 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Experimental Techniques | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610605013 | |
| Published online | 03 February 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610605013
Nickel Foil as Transmutation Detector for Neutron Fluence Measurements
1 Research Centre Rez, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
2 Nuclear Physics Institute, Husinec-Řez, Czech Republic
3 Technische Universität München, Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II), Garching, Germany
a Corresponding author: Vit.Klupak@cvrez.cz
Published online: 3 February 2016
Activation detectors are very often used for determination of the neutron fluence in reactor dosimetry. However, there are few disadvantages concerning these detectors; it is the demand of the knowledge of the irradiation history and a loss of information due to a radioactive decay in time. Transmutation detectors TMD could be a solution in this case. The transmutation detectors are materials in which stable or long-lived nuclides are produced by nuclear reactions with neutrons. From a measurement of concentration of these nuclides, neutron fluence can be evaluated regardless of the cooling time.
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