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Joint NEA project performs high-burnup test
An article in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s July news bulletin noted that a first test has been completed for the High Burnup Experiments in Reactivity Initiated Accident (HERA) project. The project aim is to understand the performance of light water reactor fuel at high burnup under reactivity-initiated accidents (RIA).
S. L. Liew, L. P. Ku, J. Kolibal, K. W. Hill
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1020-1025
Shielding Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40167
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Intense neutron and gamma radiation will accompany the reactor like DD and DT plasmas that are planned to be generated on the TFTR. Since many plasma diagnostic systems use detectors that are sensitive to neutrons and gamma-rays to various degrees, local shielding will be required to achieve acceptable signal to noise ratios during those high power operations. In this paper, we analyze the shielding problems related to the horizontal x-ray imaging system.
