TY - GEN
T1 - Current neutronic calculation techniques for modeling the production of IR-192 in HFIR
AU - Peterson-Droogh, Josh
AU - Howard, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © (2018) by PHYSOR 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper describes the current methods used to calculate the heating rates of Ir-192 for use in safety basis thermal-hydraulic calculations and to estimate the yield of the activity of the material post-irradiation. Through the use of tools such as MCNP and SCALE/ORIGEN, and with a mesh-based depletion approach, a much more detailed calculation was performed to help optimize the experimental design and to improve understanding of what was happening during the irradiation and decay of the iridium targets. Although the tools and methods outlined in this report were for a specific iridium target, the same procedure could be followed for other targets being irradiated.
AB - This paper describes the current methods used to calculate the heating rates of Ir-192 for use in safety basis thermal-hydraulic calculations and to estimate the yield of the activity of the material post-irradiation. Through the use of tools such as MCNP and SCALE/ORIGEN, and with a mesh-based depletion approach, a much more detailed calculation was performed to help optimize the experimental design and to improve understanding of what was happening during the irradiation and decay of the iridium targets. Although the tools and methods outlined in this report were for a specific iridium target, the same procedure could be followed for other targets being irradiated.
KW - Ir-192
KW - Isotope production
KW - MCNP
KW - Mesh-based depletion
KW - SCALE
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85106045089
T3 - International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2018: Reactor Physics Paving the Way Towards More Efficient Systems
SP - 2757
EP - 2771
BT - International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2018
PB - Sociedad Nuclear Mexicana, A.C.
T2 - 2018 International Conference on Physics of Reactors: Reactor Physics Paving the Way Towards More Efficient Systems, PHYSOR 2018
Y2 - 22 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -