Nuclear Data for Criticality Safety and Reactor Applications at the Gaerttner LINAC Center

摘要

The Gaerttner LINAC Center at RPI is conducting research in nuclear data that is important to a variety of applications including nuclear reactors and criticality safety. New high resolution measurements of ~(56)Fe total cross section, capture in Gd and Dy isotopes, and ~(238)U neutron scattering that are relevant to the NCSP mission were completed. The new experimental data can be used to improve cross section evaluations and to improve the accuracy of existing nuclear data. Accurate nuclear data is a key ingredient to accurate and safe design of nuclear systems.