Passive nondestructive burnup monitoring of MNSR irradiated fuel by measuring photoneutrons produced within fission products

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1925-1929

  Haddad, Kh ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Be; Burnup; Cooling time; Fission products; Hard gamma; MNSR; Passive nondestructive; Photoneutrons; Radiation; Subcritical

Indexed keywords

BE; BURNUP; COOLING TIME; HARD GAMMA; MNSR; PASSIVE NONDESTRUCTIVE; PHOTONEUTRONS; SUBCRITICAL;

BARIUM; COOLING; FISSION PRODUCTS; GAMMA RAYS; HEAT RADIATION; MONITORING; NUCLEAR FUELS;

NEUTRON SOURCES;

BARIUM; BERYLLIUM; FUEL; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FISSION NEUTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; REACTOR OPERATION;

EID: 68949213595     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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