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Nuclear Transmutation of Minor Actinide
Integral experiments on critical irradiation of neuptium-237 (237Np) and americium-241 (241Am) foils are carried out in a hard spectrum core at KUCA...
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Introduction
At the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA), the accelerator-driven system (ADS) is composed of a solid-moderated and solid-reflected core...
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Sensitivity and Uncertainty of Criticality
Excess reactivity and control rod worth are generally considered important reactor physics parameters for experimentally examining the neutron...
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Reactor Kinetics
In static and kinetic experimental analyses, the reactivity effect of introducing a neutron guide has been examined with various materials and...
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Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University...
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Neutronics of Lead and Bismuth
Cross-section uncertainties of Pb and Bi isotopes could consequently affect the precision of nuclear design calculations of preliminary analyses,...
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Test and Research Reactors in Japan
Test and research reactors are nuclear reactors that are designed to conduct education and research using radiation, such as neutrons, differing from...
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Subcriticality
For a subcritical reactor system driven by a periodically pulsed spallation neutron source in KUCA, the Feynman-α and the Rossi-α neutron correlation...
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Calculating the Neutronics of a Yalina–Thermal Subcritical Assembly Using the Physical Birth-and-Death Model
AbstractParameters of the Yalina–Thermal neutron-multiplying medium are calculated using a physical model of the birth and death of particles. The...
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Special issue: applications of radiation in science and technology
This special issue presents a selection of papers dealing with various aspects relevant for applications of radiation in science and technology. The...
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Neutron Spectrum
The subcritical multiplication factor is considered an important index for recognizing, in the core, the number of fission neutrons induced by an...
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Effective Delayed Neutron Fraction
In kinetic analyses on ADS, although adjoint flux distribution is defined under the existence of an external neutron source, an issue of the proper...
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Spectrofluorimetric Determination of Hypericin in Drugs and Vegetable Raw Materials
Hypericin was isolated from Diahyperon tincture for use as a standard sample. The chromatographic purity of the hypericin was confirmed by...
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Subcriticality estimation by extended Kalman filter technique in transient experiment with external neutron source at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
The monitoring subcriticality by the extended Kalman filter (EKF) is evaluated in the presence of an external neutron source through transient...
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Absolutization of the Subcriticality Levels Measured by the Neutron Source Multiplication Method and the Area Ratio Method
AbstractVersions of the neutron source multiplication (NSM) method are considered. The method developed at foreign research institutes to determine...
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An ADS irradiation facility for fast and slow neutrons
We studied a flexible ADS-based irradiation facility with fast neutrons inside the core and slow neutrons in the composite reflector containing light...
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Thorium-Loaded Accelerator-Driven System Experiments at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
Experimental studies on the thorium-loaded accelerator-driven system (ADS) have been conducted at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly. Mockup...
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Surface plasmon resonance sensing of a biomarker of Alzheimer disease in an intensity measurement mode with a bimetallic chip
A surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor system with a bimetallic chip has been utilized to sense the very low concentration of amyloid-beta (A β )(1-42...
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Accelerator-Driven Systems: National Projects (Session 11)
In this session, two ADS development activities in Asia were reported.
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Status of the crystallography beamlines at Elettra
Elettra is one of the first 3rd-generation storage rings, recently upgraded to routinely operate in top-up mode at both 2.0 and 2.4 GeV. The facility...