Calibração dos canais nucleares do Reator IPEN/MB-01, obtida a partir da medida da distribuição espacial do fluxo de nêutrons térmicos no núcleo do reator através da irradiação de folhas de ouro infinitamente diluídas / CALIBRATION OF THE NUCLEAR POWER CHANNELS OF THE IPEN/MB-01 REACTOR OBTAINED FROM THE MEASUREMENTS OF THE SPATIAL THERMAL NEUTRON FLUX DISTRIBUTION IN THE REACTOR CORE THROUGH THE IRRADIATION OF INFINITELY DILUTED GOLD FOILS

AUTOR(ES)

Lucas Batista Gonçalves

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Several nuclear parameters are obtained through the gamma spectrometry of targets irradiated in a research reactor core and this is the case of the activation foils which make possible, through the measurements of the activity induced, to determine the neutron flux in the place where they had been irradiated. The power level operation of the reactor is a parameter directly proportional to the average neutron flux in the core. This work aims to get the power operation of the reactor through of spatial neutron flux distribution in the core of IPEN/MB-01 reactor by the irradiation of infinitely diluted gold foils and prudently located in its interior. These foils were made in the form of metallic alloy in concentration levels such that the phenomena of flux disturbance, as the self-shielding factors to neutrons become worthless. These activation foils has only 1% of dispersed gold atoms in an aluminium matrix content of 99% of this element. The irradiations of foils have been carried through with and without cadmium plate. The total correlation between the average thermal neutron flux obtained by irradiation of infinitely diluted activation foils and the average digital value of current of the nuclear power channels 5 and 6 (non-compensated ionization chambers - CINC), allow the calibration of the nuclear channels of the IPEN/MB-01 reactor.

ASSUNTO(S)

fluxo de nêutrons calibração dos canais nucleares fluxo de nêutrons calibração dos canais nucleares potência potência

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