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Investigation on sample thickness effect on nuclear material quantification with NRTA for particle-like debris of melted fuel

Tsuchiya, Harufumi ; Harada, Hideo   ; Koizumi, Mitsuo ; Kitatani, Fumito  ; Takamine, Jun ; Kureta, Masatoshi   ; Iimura, Hideki  ; Becker, B.*; Kopecky, S.*; Kauwenberghs, K.*; Moens, A.*; Mondelaers, W.*; Schillebeeckx, P.*

We have no established methods to quantify the amount of nuclear materials in particle-like debris of melted fuel derived from a nuclear accident such as the one occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. For this reason, neutron resonance densitometry, combining neutron resonance transmission analysis and neutron resonance capture analysis, is under development. It is expected that such debris have a wide variety of size, shape, and concentration of impurities. Experiments with the Neutron Resonance Transmisson Analysis (NRTA) using three Cu metal disks with different thickness of 0.125 mm, 0.25 mm, and 0.7 mm were made between November 2012 and February 2013 at the Geel Electron LINear Accelerator (GELINA) to investigate sample thickness effect on the transmission analysis. We experimentally derived the areal density for the individual Cu samples with the resonance shape analysis code REFIT, and then compared them with the declared areal density. It was found that the REFIT-evaluated areal density was consistent with declared ones for each sample.

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