benchmarks of subcriticality in accelerator-driven system at kyoto university critical assembly
;Cheol Ho Pyeon;Masao Yamanaka;Song-Hyun Kim;Thanh-Mai Vu;Tomohiro Endo;Willem Fredrik G. Van Rooijen;Go Chiba
Journal of hazardous materials2017Vol. 49pp. 1234-1239
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pyeon2017nuclearbenchmarks
Abstract
Basic research on the accelerator-driven system is conducted by combining 235U-fueled and 232Th-loaded cores in the Kyoto University Critical Assembly with the pulsed neutron generator (14 MeV neutrons) and the proton beam accelerator (100 MeV protons with a heavy metal target). The results of experimental subcriticality are presented with a wide range of subcriticality level between near critical and 10,000 pcm, as obtained by the pulsed neutron source method, the Feynman-α method, and the neutron source multiplication method.