Neutron measurements around storage casks containing spent fuel and vitrified high-level radioactive waste at ZWILAG.

Abstract:

:Spectrometric and dosimetric measurements were made around a cask containing spent fuel and a cask containing high-level radioactive waste at the Swiss intermediate waste and spent fuel storage facility. A Bonner sphere spectrometer, an LB 6411 neutron monitor and an Automess Szintomat 6134A were used to characterise the n-gamma fields at several locations around the two casks. The results of these measurements show that the neutron fluence spectra around the cask containing radioactive waste are harder and higher in intensity than those measured in the vicinity of the spent fuel cask. The ambient dose equivalents measured with the LB 6411 neutron monitor are in good agreement with those obtained using the Bonner spheres, except for locations with soft neutron spectra where the monitor overestimates the neutron ambient dose equivalent by almost 50%.

journal_name

Radiat Prot Dosimetry

authors

Buchillier T,Aroua A,Bochud FO

doi

10.1093/rpd/ncm216

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-01-01 00:00:00

pages

319-26

issue

4

eissn

0144-8420

issn

1742-3406

pii

ncm216

journal_volume

124

pub_type

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