An apparatus for the study of high temperature water radiolysis in a nuclear reactor: calibration of dose in a mixed neutron/gamma radiation field

The cooling water of nuclear reactors undergoes radiolytic decomposition induced by gamma, fast electron, and neutron radiation in the core. To model the process, recombination reaction rates and radiolytic yields for the water radical fragments need to be measured at high temperature and pressure....

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of scientific instruments 2007-12, Vol.78 (12), p.124101-124101
Hauptverfasser: Edwards, Eric J, Wilson, Paul P H, Anderson, Mark H, Mezyk, Stephen P, Pimblott, Simon M, Bartels, David M
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The cooling water of nuclear reactors undergoes radiolytic decomposition induced by gamma, fast electron, and neutron radiation in the core. To model the process, recombination reaction rates and radiolytic yields for the water radical fragments need to be measured at high temperature and pressure. Yields for the action of neutron radiation are particularly hard to determine independently because of the beta/gamma field also present in any reactor. In this paper we report the design of an apparatus intended to measure neutron radiolysis yields as a function of temperature and pressure. A new methodology for separation of neutron and beta/gamma radiolysis yields in a mixed radiation field is proposed and demonstrated.
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.2814167