Information About a New Neutron-Gamma Reactor Experiment

Presently, no experimental benchmark data are available allowing to test calculations of gamma spectra in neutron-gamma reactor environments. As newer findings indicate a possible influence of gamma radiation on reactor pressure vessel embrittlement, a neutron-gamma experiment using NE213 scintillation spectrometry to measure gamma and neutron spectra in iron-water slabs has been started at the training reactors of the Technical University Dresden and the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz. The measured data will be used to test the accuracy of Monte Carlo Calculations of gamma and neutron spectra in environments typical for pressure vessel dosimetry applications. Particularly, the code Monte Carlo code TRAMO will be validated in connection with the nuclear data library ENDF/B-VI. After a description of the experimental facilities, the schedule of measurements and the applied measurement and calculation methods are described.