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Neutron spectra and dosimetric assessment around a neutron Howitzer container
Año:2014
Áreas de investigación
  • Fisica nx -- fisica nuclear experimental
Datos
Descripción
The neutron Howitzer container at the Neutron Measurements Laboratory of the Nuclear Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), is equipped with a 241Am-Be neutron source of 74 GBq in its center. The container allows the source to be in either the irradiation or the storage position. To measure the neutron fluence rate spectra around the Howitzer container, measurements were performed using a Bonner spheres spectrometer and the spectra were unfolded using the NSDann program. A calibrated neutron area monitor LB6411 was used to measure the ambient dose equivalent rates, H*(10). Detailed Monte-Carlo simulations were performed to calculate the measured quantities at the same positions. The maximum relative deviation between simulations and measurements was 19.53%. After validation, the simulated model was used to calculate the equivalent dose rate in several key organs of a voxel phantom. The computed doses in the skin and lenses of the eyes are within the ICRP recommended dose limits, as is the H*(10) value for the storage position.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Progress in Nuclear Science And Technology
ISSN
2185-4823
Factor de impacto JCR
1,033
Información de impacto
Publicación asociada al Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology; Datos JCR del año 2012
Volumen
4
DOI
10.15669/pnst.4.757
Número de revista
Desde la página
757
Hasta la página
761
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Participantes
  • Autor: Silvia Barros IST/CTN
  • Autor: Eduardo Florentino Gallego Diaz UPM
  • Autor: Alfredo Lorente Fillol UPM
  • Autor: Isabel Gonçalves IST/CTN
  • Autor: Pedro Vaz IST/CTN
  • Autor: Hector René Vega Carrillo U. Auntónoma Zacatecas
  • Autor: Maria Zankl Helmholtz Zentrum München
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  • Creador: Departamento: Ingeniería Energética