Neutron has been one of the most interesting particle since its discovery. Being an uncharged it is more difficult to shield in comparison with other radiation types. This may be due differences interaction matter. The main processes neutron a matter via (n,p) reaction and thus hydrogenous materials are generally preferred neutron. In this study shielding properties for HAP composites have inve...

Neutron streaming through penetrations compromises the shielding performance of fusion devices. To characterize the problem, the effects of neutron streaming through the divertor Heaccess pipe on the peaking of radiation-induced damage across the ARIES-CS power plant components were compared to the nominal values for the different components. The results show that due to streaming the damage ex...

Neutron electric dipole moment measurement (EDM) requires precise control of the electric and magnetic field in the test cell. External magnetic field should be shielded out completely. As the experiment will be conducted in cryogenic environment (~ 4K), conventional μ-metal shield cannot work in low temperature. Shielding property of another magnetic material, Metglas, was study in this projec...

The 250kW TRIGA Mark II research reactor, Vienna, is equipped with experimental facilities inside and outside the reactor core. Outside the core, there are four beam tubes (three radial and one tangential beam tube), a thermal column and a neutron radiography collimator, supplying neutrons for irradiation experiments. These experiments include neutron radiography, neutron tomography, neutron ac...

In this paper we give an analysis of the neutron transmission through iron sphere using Monte Carlo and transport theory methods based on ENDF/B-VII.1 general purpose library. The motivation for investigation comes from a well-known deficiency in inelastic data older library evaluation (ENDF/B-V), giving concern fast flux underestimation within reactor pressure vessels. order to benchmark next-...

Activation and safety analyses were performed for the ARIES-ST design. The ARIES-ST power plant includes a water cooled copper center post and uses a SiC/LiPb blanket. The first wall and shield are made of low activation ferritic steel and cooled with helium. The center post, first wall, inboard shield and blanket were assumed to survive for 2.6 full power years (FPY). On the other hand, the ou...

We present the design and analysis of a new gamma ray spectrometer for planetary science that uses an array of CdZnTe detectors to achieve the detection efficiency needed for orbital measurements. The use of CdZnTe will provide significantly improved pulse height resolution relative to scintillation-based detectors, with commensurate improvement in the accuracy of elemental abundances determine...

We investigate the problem of detecting the presence of clandestine neutron sources, such as would be produced by nuclear weapons containing plutonium, within cargo containers. Small, simple and economical semiconductor photodiode detectors affixed to the outsides of containers are capable of producing statistically robust detections of unshielded sources when their output is integrated over th...

as a result of being hydrogenous moderators, several landmine detection methods based onnuclear techniques have been suggested in recent years. because of elastic scattering and moderating neutrons from hydrogen atoms in landmines, detection of backscattered neutron shows an anomaly in the reflected thermal neutrons count when a detector scans over a mine. on landmine detection using neutron so...