分类: 核科学技术 >> 核探测技术与核电子学 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: A spherical tissue equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) for neutron monitoring has been developed. It was properly designed to produce a uniform electric field intensity around the anode wire. An internal 241Am alpha source was adopted for lineal energy calibration. The TEPC was characterized in terms of dose equivalent response in a standard 252Cf neutron field, and was tested with 2.45 MeV neutrons. Microdosimetric spectra, frequency mean lineal energy and dose-average mean lineal energy of 2.45 MeV neutrons were obtained and compared with FLUKA Monte Carlo simulation results. The measurement and simulation results agreed well. The mean quality factor and dose equivalent values evaluated from the 2.45 MeV neutron measurement were in good agreement with the recommended effective quality factor and ambient dose equivalent H*(10)(10), respectively. Preliminary results have proved the availability of the developed TEPC for neutron monitoring.
分类: 核科学技术 >> 裂变堆工程技术 提交时间: 2023-06-18 合作期刊: 《Nuclear Science and Techniques》
摘要: Tritium real-time measurement in glovebox or workplace is important to ensure safe operation of tritium. A novel tritium monitor system including an open-walled ionization chamber, an electrometer and an IPC (Industrial Personal Computer) has been developed to measure tritium in gaseous form. Using mesh walls, instead of sealed wall, the open-walled ionization chamber has less tritium absorption and lower memory effect. In addition, tritium gas can diffuse into the chambers sensitive region without the assistant of sampling system and ion trap, which are installed at the front-end of commonly used flow-through ionization chambers. Background signal of this monitor system is about 3.7105 Bq/m3, and after exposed to tritium concentration at about 1011 Bq/m3 for 4h, background of the monitor can recover after purging it several times with dry air. It is suitable for longtime tritium measurements in both glovebox and workplace.