Measurement of energy and direction distribution of neutron and photon fluences in workplace fields

Abstract

Within the EU Project EVIDOS, a spectrometer with 24 silicon detectors mounted on the surface of a polyethylene sphere is used for the determination of the energy and direction distribution of neutrons and photons. It has been characterized with respect to neutron radiation with energies from thermal up to 15 MeV and to photon radiation with energies from 65 keV to 6 MeV. The first measurements described here were performed in the simulated workplace field, CANEL, at Cadarache, with the purpose of checking the instrument and the unfolding procedures.