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Argonne updates: Fuel research and materials lab
Over the past two weeks, Argonne National Laboratory has announced numerous significant advancements being made by its staff to push forward nuclear fuels and materials research. Those announcements include the opening of the new Activated Materials Lab, the development of a new measurement technique, and the application of new artificial intelligence tools.
E. A. Straker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 2 | February 1969 | Pages 168-175
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28249
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The Monte Carlo technique has been used to determine some general properties of fast-neutron collimators for the cases in which the sources and detectors were finite disks. Based on these results, a collimator was designed to be used in determining the angular- and spatial-dependent neutron leakage spectrum from the TSF-SNAP reactor with a minimum distortion of the measured results. The detector-collimator response functions were then calculated for use in a separate Monte Carlo calculation of the leakage from the SNAP core. The adequacy of the response functions was determined by comparing the measured and calculated values of detector counts for a number of PoBe source locations off the axis of the collimator.