Neutron transmission experiment with PTFE at AKR-2

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Beitragende

Abstract

Fluorine is a crucial element for the nuclear industry and technology due to its application in nuclear fuel production as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), its use of Teflon® in criticality experiments, and its use in coolant/fuel materials in several Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) concepts currently being designed. There have been many efforts to improve the neutron reaction cross sections for fluorine. The neutron broad-beam transmission experiment through the PTFE (PolyTetraFluoroEthylene) block at the Dresden AKR-2 reactor has been performed to validate existing evaluated cross-section libraries from 1 to 10 MeV of incident neutron energies. Calculations with studied data sets (ENDF/B-VIII.0, INDEN, JEFF-3.3, and JENDL-5) show satisfactory agreement with the experiment in the energy region above 2.1 MeV within the uncertainty range. The measured neutron transmission shows a systematic disagreement in a calculation to experiment comparison in the energy region 1–2.1 MeV. This behavior is consistent with the measured 252Cf(s.f.) neutron leakage in the PTFE block with dimensions of 60 × 50 × 50 cm. Improvement of evaluated cross sections below 2 MeV of neutron incident energy is needed.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer111741
FachzeitschriftAnnals of nuclear energy
Jahrgang224
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 16 Juli 2025
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-6991-8379/work/188439646
ORCID /0009-0001-2815-471X/work/192043923

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • AKR-2 reactor, Deep neutron transport, Neutron cross sections for fluorine, Neutron wide beam, Research reactor, Transmission experiment