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Securing the advanced reactor fleet
Physical protection accounts for a significant portion of a nuclear power plant’s operational costs. As the U.S. moves toward smaller and safer advanced reactors, similar protection strategies could prove cost prohibitive. For tomorrow’s small modular reactors and microreactors, security costs must remain appropriate to the size of the reactor for economical operation.
A. Dodaro, F. V. Frazzoli, R. Remetti
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 130 | Number 1 | September 1998 | Pages 141-152
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1996
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The development and setup of a procedure to simulate passive assays of plutonium dioxide samples by the neutron coincidence counting technique are presented. The main topics are pulse train simulation methodology, application of the neutron coincidence counting technique to the simulated pulse trains and subsequent Reals rate calculation, validation of the simulation procedure by direct comparison with experimental data from 1 × 101 g ÷ 2.5 × 103 g PuO2 reference standards, application of the simulator for studying ideal well counters, and presentation of further developments concerning possible applications of the simulator as a design tool for well counters and for studying dead-time and induced fission correction formulas.