ANALYSIS OF NEUTRON FIELDS GENERATED IN SPALLATION TARGETS OF B-URAN EXPERIMENTAL ASSEMBLY USING MONTE CARLO METHOD

Authors

  • Ondřej Šťastný Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic State Office for Nuclear Safety, Department of Non-Proliferation, Senovážné nám. 9, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic
  • Miroslav Zeman Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Russia
  • Dušan Král Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  • Karel Katovský Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  • Elmira Melyan Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic Yerevan State University, Faculty of Physics, 1 Alex Manoogian Street, 0025 Yerevan, Armenia
  • Jindřich Adam Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technická 3082/12, 616 00 Brno, Czech Republic Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Russia
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Solnyshkin Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Russia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2019.24.0044

Keywords:

Accelerator driven systems, B-URAN, Monte Carlo simulations, reaction rates, spallation reactions.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce experimental assembly B-URAN and the results of Monte Carlo simulations of neutron fields, which will be generated by using various spallation targets. This experimental assembly was constructed in Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russian Federation, in order to study accelerator driven systems fundamental characteristics. Beam of 660 MeV protons should be used for that purpose. The MCNP model of such set-up has been developed at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. The goal is to get data needed for prediction of reaction rates in detectors placed in B-URAN experimental channels. Such data will be experimentally validated later. Furthermore, simulations of radiation exposure around this xperimental assembly were performed.

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2019-12-06

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Vol. 24 (2019): ŠIMÁNĚ 2019

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