Download or read book A NEW EVALUATION OF FISSION PRODUCT YIELDS AND THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW LIBRARY UKFY2 OF INDEPENDENT AND CUMULATIVE YIELDS PART 1 METHODS AND OUTLINEOF THE EVALUATION written by M. F. James and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Evaluation of Fission Product Yields and the Production of a New Library Ukfy2 of Independent and Cumulative Yields written by M. F. James and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Evaluation of Fission Product Yields and the Production of a New Library Ukfy2 of Independent and Cumulative Yields written by M. F. James and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experimental Techniques in Nuclear Physics written by Dorin N. Poenaru and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Evaluation of Fission Product Yields and the Production of a New Library Ukfy2 of Independant and Cumulative Yields written by M.F. James and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CINDA 97 written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology written by Società italiana di fisica and published by Italian Physical Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HMSO Monthly Catalogue written by Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HMSO Agency Catalogue written by Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Evaluation of Fission Product Yields and the Production of Independent and Cumulative Yields written by M. R. James and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Treatment of Fission Yield Effects and Method Development for Improved Reactor Depletion Calculations written by Kern, Kilian and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fission Product Yields written by Katharine Way and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurement Evaluation Techniques and Nuclear Data Associated with Fission of 239Pu by Fission Spectrum Neutrons written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Panel was chartered to review and assess new evaluations of work on fission product data, as well as the evaluation process used by the two U.S. nuclear weapons physics laboratories. The work focuses on fission product yields resulting from fission spectrum neutrons incident on plutonium, and includes data from measurements that had not been previously published as well as new or revised fission product cumulative yield data, and related quantities such as Q values and R values. This report documents the Panel's assessment of the work presented by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Based on the work presented we have seven key observations: (1) Experiments conducted in the 1970s at LANL, some of which were performed in association with a larger, NIST-led, program, have recently been documented. A preliminary assessment of this work, which will be referred to in this document as ILRR-LANL, shows it to be technically sound. (2) LLNL has done a thorough, unbiased review and evaluation of the available literature and is in the process of incorporating the previously unavailable LANL data into its evaluation of key fission product yields. The results of the LLNL effort, which includes a preliminary evaluation of the ILRR-LANL data, have been documented. (3) LANL has also conducted an evaluation of fission product yields for fission spectrum neutrons on plutonium including a meta-analysis of benchmark data as part of a planned upgrade to the ENDF/B compilation. We found that the approach of using meta-analysis provides valuable additional insight for evaluating the sparse data sets involved in this assessment. (4) Both laboratories have provided convincing evidence for energy dependence in the fission product yield of 147Nd produced from the bombardment of 239Pu with fission spectrum neutrons over an incident neutron energy range of 0.2 to 1.9 MeV. (5) Consistent, complete, and explicit treatment of both systematic and statistical uncertainties, including correlations, are critical to the assessment of both the experimental measurements (due to variations between experimental techniques, irradiation conditions, calibration procedures, etc.), and the evaluation of those experiments to extract fundamental nuclear data. A clear example of the importance of uncertainty analysis is in the justification for energy-dependent 147Nd fission product yield, where the magnitude of the effect is comparable to the uncertainties of the individual fission product yield measurements. Both LANL and LLNL are committed to the inclusion of full uncertainty analysis in their evaluations. (6) The Panel reviewed in detail two methods for determining/evaluating fission product yields from which fission assessments can be made: the K factor method and high-resolution gamma spectroscopy (both described more fully in Sections 3 and 4). The panel concluded that fission product yields, and thus fission assessments, derived using either approach are equally valid, provided that the data were obtained from well understood, direct fission measurements and that the key underlying calibrations and/or data are valid for each technique. (7) The Panel found the process of peer review of the two complementary but independent methods to be an extremely useful exercise. Although work is still ongoing and the numbers presented to the Panel may change slightly, both groups are now in much better agreement on not just one, but four key fission product yields. The groups also have a better appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of each other's methods.
Download or read book A Survey and Evaluation of U233 Fission Yield Data written by R. L. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determination of Independent and Cumulative Fission Product Yields with Gamma Spectrometry written by Kenneth Joseph Dayman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fission product yields are vital to nuclear forensics and safeguards missions, especially active interrogation technologies and post-event forensic response. However, there have been limited experimental measurements performed to date, and the majority of the existing data is based on nuclear models. Updates to the nuclear data such as branching ratios have been made over time, the need for new measurements has come to light as datasets are no longer self-consistent and there are significant discrepancies between datasets. A method has been developed to determine independent and cumulative fission product yields using Bayesian inference. The methodology combines gamma-ray spectrometry, nuclide transmutation and burnup modeling, numerical optimization, and Monte Carlo sampling. The developed convex optimization was solved using three solvers: the Nelder-Mead Simplex direct search, the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, and Newton's Method. Sources of uncertainty were treated using sensitivity coefficient estimation with perturbation analysis as well as Monte Carlo sampling to determine uncertainty in the estimated values for fission product yields and produce uncertainty budgets. Each part of the analysis method was verified using controlled data analysis experiments with known results and then validated with two experiments. The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is the fastest and most reliable approach to optimization of three algorithms tested, and Monte Carlo sampling better treated uncertainty by explicitly treating correlations between input parameters, accounting for higher-order effects neglected by first-order sensitivity coefficients, and providing entire probability distributions for results. Thermal irradiations were performed at The University of Texas to produce fission products by bombarding naturally enriched U3O8 in a thermal neutron field provided by the 1.1 MW TRIGA reactor's thermal pneumatic transfer irradiation facility. Eleven long-lived fission products were identified and quantified using a series of gamma-ray spectra collected of the sample after the end of irradiation. Molybdenum-99 was used as an internal standard to estimate the time-averaged neutron flux incident on the sample, resulting in a value of (2.26 ± 0.24) × 1010 cm−2s−1, which agrees with prior operator experience. Fission product yields for the other ten identified radionuclides were estimated. The results agreed reasonably with literature values. Biases relative to literature values are positive and negative with an average bias of 6.3%, and the absolute relative error is 9.7%, suggesting that no systematic biases or major sources of untreated error were present in the analysis. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory irradiated a 220 mg 235U foil with greater than 99% enrichment in a 14.1 MeV neutron field using a neutron generator and collected list-mode gamma-ray counting data. These data were parsed at The University of Texas to create sets of twenty-minute and twelve-hour gamma-ray spectra that were used to identify and quantify short- and long-lived fission products, respectively. In total, nineteen fission products with half-lives ranging from 3.2 minutes to 64.0 days were studied. The neutron flux of (2.36 ± 0.11) × 108 cm−2s−1 was estimated using 99Mo as an internal standard, and the determined value was used to calculate fission product yields of the remaining fission products. Determined values differ greatly from literature values; however, literature values for 14.1 MeV neutrons are less studied, especially for short-lived nuclides, and gamma-ray measurements of long-lived fission products are unreliable due to the small number of fissions that occurred during irradiation. Despite the limitations of the data, the results of the analyses are positive and confirm the viability of the developed methodology for further fission product yield analysis, as well as other nuclear data measurements, and application to nuclear forensics and safeguards inverse problems.
Download or read book Evaluation and Compilation of Fission Product Yields 1993 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is the latest in a series of compilations of fission yield data. Fission yield measurements reported in the open literature and calculated charge distributions have been used to produce a recommended set of yields for the fission products. The original data with reference sources, and the recommended yields axe presented in tabular form. These include many nuclides which fission by neutrons at several energies. These energies include thermal energies (T), fission spectrum energies (F), 14 meV High Energy (H or HE), and spontaneous fission (S), in six sets of ten each. Set A includes U235T, U235F, U235HE, U238F, U238HE, Pu239T, Pu239F, Pu241T, U233T, Th232F. Set B includes U233F, U233HE, U236F, Pu239H, Pu240F, Pu241F, Pu242F, Th232H, Np237F, Cf252S. Set C includes U234F, U237F, Pu240H, U234HE, U236HE, Pu238F, Am241F, Am243F, Np238F, Cm242F. Set D includes Th227T, Th229T, Pa231F, Am241T, Am241H, Am242MT, Cm245T, Cf249T, Cf251T, Es254T. Set E includes Cf250S, Cm244S, Cm248S, Es253S, Fm254S, Fm255T, Fm256S, Np237H, U232T, U238S. Set F includes Cm243T, Cm246S, Cm243F, Cm244F, Cm246F, Cm248F, Pu242H, Np237T, Pu240T, and Pu242T to complete fission product yield evaluations for 60 fissioning systems in all. This report also serves as the primary documentation for the second evaluation of yields in ENDF/B-VI released in 1993.
