論文

査読有り
2013年5月

Power spectral analysis for a thermal subcritical reactor system driven by a pulsed 14 MeV neutron source

JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Atsushi Sakon
  • ,
  • Kengo Hashimoto
  • ,
  • Wataru Sugiyama
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Taninaka
  • ,
  • Cheol Ho Pyeon
  • ,
  • Tadafumi Sano
  • ,
  • Tsuyoshi Misawa
  • ,
  • Hironobu Unesaki
  • ,
  • Takaaki Ohsawa

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5
開始ページ
481
終了ページ
492
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1080/00223131.2013.785268
出版者・発行元
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

A series of power spectral analyses for a thermal subcritical reactor system driven by a pulsed 14 MeV neutron source was carried out at Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA), to determine the prompt-neutron decay constant of the accelerator-driven system (ADS). The cross-power spectral density between time-sequence signal data of two neutron detectors was composed of a familiar continuous reactor noise component and many delta-function-like peaks at the integral multiple of pulse repetition frequency. The prompt-neutron decay constant inferred from the reactor noise component of the cross-power spectral density was consistent with that obtained by a pulsed neutron experiment. However, the reactor noise component of the auto-power spectral density of each detector was hidden by a white chamber noise in the higher-frequency range and this feature resulted in a considerable underestimation of the decay constant. For several runs with a low pulse-repetition frequency, furthermore, we attempted to infer the decay constant from point data of the delta-function-like peaks. The analysis for a run under a slightly subcritical state resulted in the consistent decay constant; however, those for other runs under significantly subcritical states underestimated the decay constant. Considering the contribution of a spatially higher mode to the point data, the above underestimation was solved to obtain the consistent decay constant. While the Feynman- formula for a pulsed neutron source is too complicated to be fitted directly to variance-to-mean ratio data, the present analysis on frequency domain is much simpler and the conventional formula based on the first-order reactor transfer function is available for fitting to power spectral density data.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2013.785268
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https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=201302272891653799
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ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1080/00223131.2013.785268
  • ISSN : 0022-3131
  • J-Global ID : 201302272891653799
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000318276200003

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