gamma Radiation Spectrum Analysis of Irradiated Fuel at Different Cooling Times and the Best Fuel Burnup and Power Monitors in Tehran Research Reactor

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1 shiraz university

2 AEOI

Abstract

One of the non-destructive methods in evaluating the characteristics of irradiated fuels in any reactor is the gamma radiation spectroscopy. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the spectrum of an irradiated fuel and the estimation of some fissile products as a fuel burnup and the power peaking factor monitors in a fuel assembly is necessary. On the other hand, some experimental constraints, including the resolution of the detector energy, prevent the detection of some fission products and hide certain information in the spectrum. Therefore, in this study, the content of fissile fragments of Tehran Research Reactor fuel at different cooling times (3, 30, 120, 360 and 720 days) was evaluated with the ORIGEN2.1 computational code and the spectrum of fission products by Monte Carlo code MCNPX2.7 have been simulated. Then fission products that can be considered as a good monitors of fuel burnup have been analyzed.

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Journal of Research on Many-body Systems
Volume 8, Issue 16
June 2018
Pages 29-39

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  • Receive Date: 04 October 2017
  • Revise Date: 30 December 2017
  • Accept Date: 27 January 2018

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