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Evaluation of Neutron Flux Distributions of SMART-P IST Region for the Design of Ex-Core Detector  

Koo, Bon-Seung (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kim, Kyo-Youn (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Lee, Chung-Chan (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Zee, Sung-Quun (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.30, no.2, 2005 , pp. 55-60 More about this Journal
Abstract
The evaluation of neutron flux distribution was performed for the ex-core detector design of SMART-P. DORT and MCNP code were used for the calculation of energy-dependent neutron flux distribution at 100% full power condition. Two code results show that maximum thermal flux appears at the $1^{st}$ water region in IST region and agree within 10% difference. In addition, another evaluation was performed code with assumptions that cote was composed of fission source and control rod without fuel assemblies. These assumptions make neutron count rate to be minimized. As a results, maximum thermal flux showed $6.99{\times}10^{-2}(n/cm^2-sec)$, when the strength of initial fission source was assumed as $1.0{\times}10^8(n/sec)$. The main reason of these results is due to the thermalization of fast neutrons in the water region and thermal flux is proportional to 80% of total neutron flux. Therefore, optimization of filler material of detector guide tube, position of installation and axial length of detector segments is necessary for the design of ex-core detector to enhance the neutron count rate and above results could be used in ex-core detector design as a fluence requirement.
Keywords
SMART-P; Ex-core detector; IST(Internal Shielding Tank); DORT/MCNP; Neutron Flux;
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