Neutron features at the UPM neutronics hall

Hector Rene Vega-Carrillo; Eduardo Gallego; Alfredo Lorente; Isabel P Rubio; Roberto Méndez

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2012.05.003

Neutron features at the UPM neutronics hall

Appl Radiat Isot. 2012 Aug;70(8):1603-7. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2012.05.003. Epub 2012 May 14.

Authors

Hector Rene Vega-Carrillo¹, Eduardo Gallego, Alfredo Lorente, Isabel P Rubio, Roberto Méndez

Affiliation

¹ Unidad Academica de Estudios Nucleares, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Apdo. Postal 336, Zacatecas, Zac 98000, Mexico. fermineutron@yahoo.com

PMID: 22738835
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2012.05.003

Abstract

The neutronics hall of the Nuclear Engineering Department at the Polytechnical University of Madrid has been characterized. The neutron spectra and the ambient dose equivalent produced by an (241)AmBe source were measured at various source-to-detector distances on the new bench. Using Monte Carlo methods a detailed model of the neutronics hall was designed, and neutron spectra and the ambient dose equivalent were calculated at the same locations where measurements were carried out. A good agreement between measured and calculated values was found.