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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2022.06.021

Measurement of deuterium concentration in heavy water utilizing prompt gamma neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) in comparison with MCNPX simulation results  

Saeed Salahi (Reactor and Nuclear Safety Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute)
Mahdieh Mokhtari Dorostkar (Department of Physics, Urmia University)
Akbar Abdi Saray (Department of Physics, Urmia University)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.54, no.11, 2022 , pp. 4231-4235 More about this Journal
Abstract
Considering the importance of deuterium in nuclear science including medical and industrial researches such as (BNCT) and nuclear reactors respectively, it is important to study various possible ways in addition to common methods for measuring its concentration. This study is an effort to measure deuterium concentration using PGNAA. The main idea is to calculate the area under 2.23 MeV gamma-rays photo peak resulting from neutron collision with Hydrogen atoms which are in mix with deuterium in samples. The study carried out by both simulation and experiment. Monte Carlo MCNPX2.6 code has been used for simulation and based on its acceptable results an experimental setup has been arranged. The coordination of results was in the range of R = 0.99 and R = 0.98 in simulation and experiment respectively. The accuracy of the study has been investigated by measuring the concentration of an unknown sample by both PGNAA and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods in which there were acceptable correlation between these two methods.
Keywords
Heavy water; PGNAA; MCNPX; Deuterium; Concentration;
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