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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
Akio Ohno, Shojiro Matsuura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 47 | Number 3 | March 1980 | Pages 485-493
Technical Paper | Hot Laboratory | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32403
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Thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs) were applied to measurements of gamma dose rates and their distributions in spent fuel assemblies irradiated in a boiling water reactor, the Japan Power Demonstration Reactor (JPDR). Materials used for the TLD were Mg2SiO4:Tb and LiF. Feasibility of the technique was confirmed by an on-site measurement in a spent fuel pond of the JPDR. The highest gamma dose rate calibrated to a 60Co gamma field was 4 × 103 R/h in the measured positions in a spent fuel assembly, with an average burnup of 5639 MWd/MTM and a cooling time of 8 yr. Reliability of the measurement by means of a TLD was tested via duplicate measurements on a fuel assembly. In the fields of nuclear safeguards and fuel management, application of TLDs will be effective in obtaining inside information of a spent fuel assembly nondestructively.
