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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science Année : 2022

Characterization of Neutron Reaction Rates in Different Irradiation Channels of the CNESTEN’s TRIGA Mark II Research Reactor

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The National Center for Energy, Sciences and Nuclear Techniques (CNESTEN)'s Training Research and Isotope Production General Atomics (TRIGA) Mark II is a pool-type light water moderated and cooled research reactor operating at a maximum steady state thermal power of 2 MW. The reactor was designed to be used as a training facility for reactor operators, neutron activation analysis, isotopes production, and for implementing different reactor physics experiments. This article deals with the numerical and experimental characterization of reaction rates (RRs) in different irradiation channels inside the CNESTEN's TRIGA Mark II research reactor, located in Rabat/Morocco. The main objective of this study is to validate the calculated neutron RRs against the measured ones and to prove that the new TRIPOLI-4 model of the reactor is capable to reproduce the measured quantities. Therefore, the measurements were carried out using the neutron activation technique and gamma spectrometry measurements. Preliminary simulations were performed with TRIPOLI-4 transport Monte Carlo code to establish the experimental design and set up for activation foils experiments. The selected set of foils with known characteristics were irradiated, at different power levels, inside the irradiation facilities of the TRIGA reactor. The resulting activities were evaluated via γ spectrometry measurements. Normalized calculated and measured RRs were compared, and a good agreement was shown for most nuclides, which indicates that the new detailed TRIPOLI-4 model of the TRIGA reactor can accurately predict the relative experimental RRs values. Further work is ongoing to analyze absolute RR values, as well as to carry measurements in other irradiation channels.
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hal-04048263 , version 1 (30-03-2023)

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Hamza Ghninou, Adrien Gruel, Abdallah Lyoussi, Christelle Reynard-Carette, Chafik El Younoussi, et al.. Characterization of Neutron Reaction Rates in Different Irradiation Channels of the CNESTEN’s TRIGA Mark II Research Reactor. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2022, 69 (7), pp.1806 - 1814. ⟨10.1109/tns.2022.3174673⟩. ⟨hal-04048263⟩
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