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Nuclear Science and Techniques ›› 2018, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (8): 107 doi: 10.1007/s41365-018-0450-9

• NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION •     Next Articles

Real-time wide-range neutron flux monitor for thorium-based molten salt reactor

Xiang Zhou 1,2 • Zi-Hao Liu 1,2 • Chao Chen 1,2 • Guo-Qing Huang 3 • Ze-Jie Yin 1,2   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
    2 Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
    3 Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai 201800, China
  • Received:2019-04-11 Revised:2019-04-12 Accepted:2019-04-18
  • Contact: Zi-Hao Liu E-mail:lzhh1234@mail.ustc.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11375195 and 11575184) and the National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Energy Development Research (No. 2013GB104003).

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Xiang Zhou, Zi-Hao Liu, Chao Chen, Guo-Qing Huang, Ze-Jie Yin. Real-time wide-range neutron flux monitor for thorium-based molten salt reactor.Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2018, 29(8): 107     doi: 10.1007/s41365-018-0450-9

Abstract:

A novel full-digital real-time neutron flux monitor (NFM) has been developed for thorium-based molten salt reactor (TMSR). The system is based on the highspeed, parallel, and pipeline processing of the field programmable gate array as well as the high-stability controller area network platform. A measurement range of 108 counts per second is achieved with a single fission chamber by utilizing the normalization of the count and Campbell algorithms. With the advantages of using the measurement range, system integrity, and real-time performance, digital NFM has been tested in the Xi’an pulsed reactor fission experiments and was found to exhibit superior experimental performance.

Key words: Neutron flux monitor, Real time, Thoriumbased molten salt reactor, Campbell

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