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Benchmarks of subcriticality in accelerator-driven system at Kyoto University Critical Assembly

  • Pyeon, Cheol Ho (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University) ;
  • Yamanaka, Masao (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University) ;
  • Kim, Song-Hyun (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University) ;
  • Vu, Thanh-Mai (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University) ;
  • Endo, Tomohiro (Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University) ;
  • Van Rooijen, Willem Fredrik G. (Research Institute of Nuclear Engineering, University of Fukui) ;
  • Chiba, Go (Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University)
  • Received : 2017.05.17
  • Accepted : 2017.06.20
  • Published : 2017.09.25
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Abstract

Basic research on the accelerator-driven system is conducted by combining $^{235}U$-fueled and $^{232}Th$-loaded cores in the Kyoto University Critical Assembly with the pulsed neutron generator (14 MeV neutrons) and the proton beam accelerator (100 MeV protons with a heavy metal target). The results of experimental subcriticality are presented with a wide range of subcriticality level between near critical and 10,000 pcm, as obtained by the pulsed neutron source method, the Feynman-${\alpha}$ method, and the neutron source multiplication method.

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