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. 2017 Jun:124:49-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.03.009. Epub 2017 Mar 11.

Studies on neutron spectrum characterization for the Pneumatic Fast Transfer System (PFTS) of KAMINI reactor

G V S Ashok Kumar  1 , Sujoy Sen  2 , E Radha  2 , J S Brahmaji Rao  1 , R Acharya  3 , R Kumar  4 , C R Venkatasubramani  1 , A V R Reddy  5 , M Joseph  1
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Studies on neutron spectrum characterization for the Pneumatic Fast Transfer System (PFTS) of KAMINI reactor

G V S Ashok Kumar et al. Appl Radiat Isot. 2017 Jun.

Abstract

Characterization of neutron energy spectrum along with the determination of sub-cadmium to epithermal neutron flux ratio (f) and the epithermal neutron flux shape factor (α) has been carried out at pneumatic fast transfer system (PFTS) of KAMINI reactor. The facility has been extensively used for the neutron activation analysis (NAA) studies using both k0-NAA and relative method. This paper describes the multi-foil activation method to determine the reaction rates followed by the generation of computed guess spectrum to unfold the neutron spectrum using least square minimization approach.

Keywords: KAMINI reactor; Least square minimization approach; Multi-foil irradiation method; Neutron spectrum; Spectrum unfolding.

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