2017年
A Simple Method to Create Gamma-ray-source Spectrum for Passive Gamma Technique
Energy Procedia
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- 巻
- 131
- 号
- 開始ページ
- 250
- 終了ページ
- 257
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.446
- 出版者・発行元
- Elsevier Ltd
A simple but sufficiently accurate method for constructing a gamma-ray source for photon-transportation calculations is developed for canisters containing fuel debris from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The new method couples a baseline spectrum evaluated using the ORIGEN2 code with a line spectrum obtained from fission products (FPs) of interest. One of the advantages of the method is its ability to take bremsstrahlung X rays into consideration using the bremsstrahlung libraries of ORIGEN2. The new gamma-ray source is used to calculate the response of a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector, and these results are compared with a benchmark test of experimental measurements of irradiated fuel pins. The shape of the simulated gamma-ray spectrum agrees well with that of the spectrum obtained by experiment. Moreover, bremsstrahlung X rays are confirmed to have little effect on spectrum shape formation because the baseline gamma-ray spectrum is mainly formed by Compton scattering of strong gamma rays from FPs such as Cs-137 and Eu-154. Gamma-ray source data are created for a debris composition recently evaluated at JAEA, and subsequent photon-transportation calculation is performed to evaluate the leakage gamma-ray spectra from a canister containing fuel debris for nuclear-material-accountancy purposes.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.446
- ISSN : 1876-6102
- SCOPUS ID : 85042011971
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000425681200035