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ADP on track to complete major D&D work at Crystal River-3 this summer
Advanced Decommissioning Partners, a joint venture of NorthStar Group Services and Orano USA, is set to complete major decommissioning activities at Crystal River-3 nuclear power plant in Florida this summer, according to the license termination plan (LTP) the company submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Zixu Xu, Kazuma Aoki, Shingo Tamaki, Sachie Kusaka, Yuuki Chimura, Isao Murata
Nuclear Technology | Volume 211 | Number 7 | July 2025 | Pages 1496-1508
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2410642
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The treatment field of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a n-γ mixed field. In the Osaka University BNCT project, a material-filtered radio-photoluminescence glass dosimeter (RPLGD) was proposed for the simultaneous measurement of neutron and gamma-ray doses. In this study, to validate the material-filtered RPLGD, various types of n-γ mixed fields are designed by irradiating different moderator assemblies with a D-D neutron source at the OKTAVIAN facility, Osaka University, Japan. The n-γ mixed fields are classified into fast neutron–, epithermal neutron–, or thermal neutron–dominated fields and a gamma-ray-only field with the specific characteristics as follows: (1) the dose ratios of gamma ray to neutron are 1.0% to 977.0% for the fast neutron–dominated field, 5.0% to 921.1% for the epithermal neutron–dominated field, 0.7% to 946.3% for the thermal neutron–dominated field, and 11880.6% for the gamma-ray-only field; (2) the proportions of fast, epithermal, and thermal neutron doses to total neutron dose are 98.4% to 100.0% for the fast neutron–dominated field, 74.0% to 85.4% for the epithermal neutron–dominated field, and 90.1% to 90.8% for the thermal neutron–dominated field, respectively; and (3) the maximum gamma-ray energy is up to 12 MeV.