Benchmark experiment on slab 238U with D-T neutrons for validation of evaluated nuclear data

A benchmark experiment on ²³⁸U slab samples was conducted using a deuterium–tritium neutron source at the China Institute of Atomic Energy. The leakage neutron spectra within energy levels of 0.8–16 MeV at 60° and 120° were measured using the time-of-flight method. The samples were prepared as rectangular slabs with a 30 cm square base and thicknesses of 3,6, and 9 cm. The leakage neutron spectra were also calculated using the MCNP-4C program based on the latest evaluated files of     

Prompt fission-neutron spectra in the reactions of 1.5-MeV neutrons with235U

Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 28–31, July, 1990.     

Study of the spectra and doses created in the iron-water shielding of a monoenergetic neutron source

Many-group calculations were made for the penetration of neutrons, emitted from monoenergetic sources, through water, iron, andwater-iron systems of finite dimensions; the results of these calculations are presented. The neutron spectra resulting from the passage of such neutrons through water and iron shielding layers were calculated on the twenty-group diffusion-transport approximation, Detailed attention was paid to the high-energy part of the spectrum; certain peculiarities in neutron migration and moderation processes in shielding of the type in question were elucidated. Dose curves D(r) were plotted for neutrons of various energies.By using the superposition principle, the results enable the neutron spectrum to be determined for sources having any arbitrary spectrum.Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 27–35, July, 1966.     

Benchmark experiment of large-angle scattering reaction cross section of iron at 14 MeV using two shadow bars – Comparison of experimental results with ENDF/B-VIII –

ABSTRACT

It is important to perform neutron transport simulations with accurate nuclear data in the neutronics design of a fusion reactor. However, absolute values of large-angle scattering cross sections vary among nuclear data libraries even for well-examined nuclide of iron. Benchmark experiments focusing on large-angle scattering cross sections were thus performed to confirm the correctness of nuclear data libraries. The series benchmark experiments were performed at a DT neutron source facility, OKTAVIAN of Osaka University, Japan, by the unique experimental system established by the authors’ group, which can extract only the contribution of large-angle scattering reactions. This system consists of two shadow bars, target plate (iron), and neutron detector (niobium). Two types of shadow bars were used and four irradiations were conducted for one experiment, so that contribution of room-return neutrons was effectively removed and only large-angle scattering neutrons were extracted from the measured four Nb reaction rates. The obtained experimental results were compared with calculations for five nuclear data libraries including JENDL-4.0, JEFF.-3.3, FENDL-3.1, ENDF/B- VII, and recently released ENDF/B-VIII. It was found from the comparison that ENDF/B-VIII showed the best result, though ENDF/B-VII showed overestimation and others are in large underestimation at 14 MeV.     

Correction to the results of absolute measurments of the235U fission cross section with 1.9 and 2.4-MeV neutrons

Technical University, Dresden.