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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Ronald C. Brockhoff, J. Kenneth Shultis
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 155 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 1-17
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE07-A2641
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Empirical parameters for a new fast-neutron differential dose albedo formula are presented for water, concrete, iron, and lead and for ten energy bands between 0.1 and 10.0 MeV. Data are also presented for 252Cf spontaneous fission neutrons, 14-MeV neutrons, and thermal neutrons. The 24-parameter approximation, based on modern dose units, agrees with MCNP-calculated values within 10%. Revised data are also presented for a five-parameter secondary-photon albedo formula, proposed earlier by Maerker and Muckenthaler, that is within 20% of MCNP values for the four materials. Finally, these revised albedo formulas are applied to the problem of thermal neutrons transmitted through a three-legged duct and compared to previous experimental results.