Adapting and applying SPECT to the investigation of reaction rate distributions within lightly activated nuclear fuel pins

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 522, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 579-590

  Fauchère, C Pralong ^a,b   Jatuff, F ^a   Murphy, M ^a   Chawla, R ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fresh fuel; Light water reactors (LWRs); Single photon emission computerised tomography (SPECT); Within pin activity distributions; Zero power experiments

Indexed keywords

BOILING WATER REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT WATER REACTORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

FRESH FUEL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); WITHIN-PIN ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ZERO-POWER EXPERIMENTS;

NUCLEAR FUELS;

EID: 1842661583     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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