• 센서학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.223-226
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• 2013

We designed a single polyethylene bonner sphere with several thermo-luminescence dosimeters (TLD), for measurement of neutron energy spectrum. For the separation of the neutron dosage in the neutron-gamma mixed field, we used 21 ea TLD-600s and TLD-700s, respectively. Because, TLD-600 is sensitive to neutron and gamma rays, and, TLD-700 is sensitive only to gamma-rays, we could determine the each dose by neutron and gamma rays. The neutron response function of the bonner sphere with TLDs was calculated by MCNPX (ver. 2.5.0) Monte Carlo simulation in the energy range from $10^{-1}$ to 20 MeV. For the Cf-252 standard neutron source in KRISS, we could estimate the neutron energy spectrum by unfolding method using the response function.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2614-2624
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• 2022

Monte Carlo simulations were used to model a portable Neutron backscattering (NBT) sensor suitable for detecting plastic anti-personnel mines (APMs) buried in dry and moist soils. The model consists of a 100 MBq ²⁵²Cf source encapsulated in a neutron reflector/shield assembly and centered between two ³He detectors. Multi-parameter optimization was performed to investigate the efficiency of Be/Zr(BH₄)₄ and Be/Be(BH₄)₂ assemblies in terms of increasing the signal-to-background (S/B) ratio and reducing the total dose equivalent rate. The MCNP results showed that 2 cm Be/3 cm Zr(BH₄)₄ and 2 cm Be/3 cm Be(BH₄)₂ are the optimal configurations. However, due to portability requirements and abundance of Be, the ²⁵²Cf-2 cm Be/3 cm Be(BH₄)₂ NBT model was selected to scan the center of APM buried 3 cm deep in dry and moist soils. The selected NBT model has positively identified the APM with a S/B ratio of 886 for dry soils of 1 wt% hydrogen content and with S/B ratios of 615, 398, 86, and 12 for the moist soils containing 4, 6, 10, and 14 wt% hydrogen, respectively. The total dose equivalent rate reached 0.0031 mSv/h, suggesting a work load of 8 h/day for 806 days within the permissible annual dose limit of 20 mSv.

• 한국방사성폐기물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방사성폐기물학회 2003년도 가을 학술논문집
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• pp.590-595
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• 2003

An Exponential experiment system which is composed of a neutron detector, a signal analysis system and a neutron source, Cf-252 has been installed in order to experimentally determine the neutron effective multiplication factor for a PWR spent fuel assembly. The axial background neutron flux is measured in a preliminary performance test. From the results, the spacer grid position is determined to be consistent with the design specifications within a 2.3% relative error. The induced fission neutron for four of the assemblies is also measured by scanning the neutron source, Cf-252 or the neutron detector. The exponential decay constants have been evaluated by the application of the Poisson regression to the net induced fission neutron counts. The measured keffs determined on the basis of the exponential decay constants of Cl5 appeared to be 0.541, 0.540, 0.597 and 0.556, respectively, which are comparable with 0.55195$\pm$0.00232 of the MCNP calculation.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.959-964
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• 2022

Lead is an important material, both for fusion or fission reactors. The cross sections of natural lead should be validated because lead is a main component of lithium-lead modules suggested for fusion power plants and it directly affects the crucial variable, tritium breeding ratio. The presented study discusses a validation of the lead transport libraries by dint of the activation of carefully selected activation samples. The high emission standard ²⁵²Cf neutron source was used as a neutron source for the presented validation experiment. In the irradiation setup, the samples were placed behind 5 and 10 cm of the lead material. Samples were measured using a gamma spectrometry to infer the reaction rate and compared with MCNP6 calculations using ENDF/B-VIII.0 lead cross sections. The experiment used validated IRDFF-II dosimetric reactions to validate lead cross sections, namely ¹⁹⁷Au(n, 2n)¹⁹⁶Au, ⁵⁸Ni(n,p)⁵⁸Co, ⁹³Nb(n, 2n)^92mNb, ¹¹⁵In(n,n')^115mIn, ¹¹⁵In(n,γ)^116mIn, ¹⁹⁷Au(n,γ)¹⁹⁸Au and ⁶³Cu(n,γ)⁶⁴Cu reactions. The threshold reactions agree reasonably with calculations; however, the experimental data suggests a higher thermal neutron flux behind lead bricks. The paper also suggests ²⁵²Cf isotropic source as a valuable tool for validation of some cross-sections important for fusion applications, i.e. reactions on structural materials, e.g. Cu, Pb, etc.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2005년도 추계학술발표회
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• pp.822-823
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• 2005

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 1998

국내 최초로 중성자 개인선량계에 대한 상호비교측정시험이 수행되었다. 기준 방사선장으로 한국원자력연구소가 보유하고 있는 중수감속 $^{252}Cf$ 선원을 이용하였으며, 12개 판독기관의 선량계 13종이 상호비교시험에 참가하였다. 각 참가기관으로부터 컨트롤과 예비용을 포함하여 15개의 선량계를 제출받아, 이를 2개의 조사선량군으로 나누어 4개씩 총 8개의 선량계가 실제 조사되었다. 중성자, 감마 그리고 총선량의 항목으로 판독기관의 보고선량을 부여된 선량으로 나누어 선량계 판독결과를 비교한 결과, 각각에 대하여 그 비율이 $0.55{\sim}1.34$, $0.54{\sim}1.32$, $0.75{\sim}1.20$ 의 분포를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 판독기관의 자체 판독능력을 기준으로 할 때 전혀 문제가 없는 것은 아니나, 현재의 상호비교시험 결과로부터 알 수 있는 것은 향후 중성자분야에 대한 개인선량계 성능시험이 시행될 경우, 판독기관들이 모두 합격범위에 들 가능성이 높은 것으로 평가되었다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.101-105
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• 2018

In this paper, a neutron moderation system for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) based on a $^{252}Cf$ neutron source is proposed. Different materials have been studied in order to produce a high percentage of epithermal neutrons. A moderator with a construction mixture of $AlF_3$ and Al, three reflectors of $Al_2O_3$, BeO, graphite, and seven filters (Bi, Cu, Fe, Pb, Ti, a two-layer filter of Ti+Bi, and a two-layer filter of Ti+Pb) is considered. The MCNPX simulation code has been used to calculate the neutron and gamma flux at the output window of the neutronic system. The results show that the epithermal neutron flux is relatively high for four filters: Ti+Pb, Ti+Bi, Bi, and Ti. However, a layer of Ti cannot reduce the contribution of ${\gamma}$-rays at the output window. Although the neutron spectra filtered by the Ti+Bi and Ti+Pb overlap, a large fraction of neutrons (74.95%) has epithermal energy when the Ti+Pb is used as a filter. However, the percentages of the fast and thermal neutrons are 25% and 0.5%, respectively. The Bi layer provides a relatively low epithermal neutron flux. Moreover, an assembly configuration of 30% $AlF_3+70%$ Al moderator/$Al_2O_3$ reflector/a two-layer filter of Ti+Pb reduces the fast neutron flux at the output port much more than other assembly combinations. In comparison with a recent model suggested by Ghassoun et al., the proposed neutron moderation system provides a higher epithermal flux with a relatively low contamination of gamma rays.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.401-407
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• 1999

We have performed two experiments in the fast critical assembly BFS to measure the effective delayed neutron fraction $\beta$$_{eff}$ values and compared the results to validate the $\beta$$_{eff}$ computation code, BETA-K. Measurements of $\beta$$_{eff}$ were carried out in a metallic plutonium core and a metallic uranium core with Cf$^{252}$ source pseudo-reactivity method. Fission integrals and correction factors, which were used to obtain the experimental $\beta$$_{eff}$ values, were calculated by using the LMR core design computation code system of KAERI. BETA-K has been developed consistently with the hexagonal Nodal Expansion Method (NEM) and it used delayed neutron data of ENDF/B-VI. By comparing the computed $\beta$$_{eff}$ values with the measured ones, we found that the results from BETA-K agreed with the experimental values within the experimental error bound.ror bound.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1406-1413
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• 2022

In this study, a diamond-based neutron scatter camera (DNSC) was developed for neutron spectroscopy in high flux environments. The DNSC was evaluated experimentally and through simulations. It was simulated using several Monte Carlo codes in a two-array layout. The two-array model included two diamond detectors. The simulation reconstructed the spectra of ²⁵²Cf and ²³⁹Pu-Be neutron sources with high accuracy (~93%). The two-diamond array system was experimentally evaluated, demonstrating the neutron spectroscopy capabilities of the DNSC. The reconstructed spectrum of the ²³⁹Pu-Be source manifested the characteristic peaks of the source. The advantage of a DNSC over a NSC is its ability to define any neutron double-scattering events without the need to absorb incident neutrons in the second detector, and atomic recoil energy information is not needed to determine the incident neutron energy.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2003

자체 개발한 수소화금속을 이용하여 고속 중성자 방사선을 효율적으로 차폐할 수 있다면 방사선 안전신기술 개발과 확립에 큰 기여를 할 것으로 생각되어 본 연구를 시행하였다. 여러 수소화 안정 금속들을 대상으로 핵적 특성, 단위 부피당 수소원자함유 수 등의 예비평가를 통하여 수소화금속($ZrH_2,\;TiH_2$) 등과 낮은 중성자 흡수 단면적과 높은 에너지 감쇄능력을 고려하여 중수소화 금속($ZrD_2,\;TiD_2$) 등을 추가하여 개발하였다. MCNP 코드를 이용하여 각각의 흡수율과 에너지 감소율을 평가하였다. 전산 모사 계산과 실험과의 비교평가를 위해 실험과 동일한 조건의 모사를 수행하였는데, 즉 중성자 선원은 Cf-252(10 mCi)을 사용하였으며 각 수소화금속의 0, 1, 3, 5 cm 두께를 통과한 중성자속의 강도와 에너지별 분포변화를 계산하였다. 코드 계산을 통해 평가된 $TiH_2/TiD_2,\;ZrH_2,/ZrD_2$ 등의 수소화금속에 대한 중성자 감소율은 각 수소화금속 두께의 증가에 따라 중성자 감소율이 지수적으로 증가함을 보였다. 또한 이 때 중수소 함유 금속, $ZrD_2$과 $TiD_2$는 중성자 흡수에 있어 $ZrH_2$와 $TiH_2$의 각각 보다 적게 나타냈다. 본 연구를 통하여 개발된 수소화금속의 중성자 방사선 차폐에 관한 결과는 과학 기술적으로 많은 인용과 아울러 학술적 연구뿐만 아니라 실제 실용화를 위한 연구의 기초자료로 충분한 활용이 있을 것으로 기대한다.