The pulsing CPSD method for subcritical assemblies with pulsed sources.pdf

The pulsing CPSD method for subcritical assemblies with pulsed sources 5 0 0 2 Daniel Ballester ∗ and n u Department of Applied Mathematics, J Polytechnic University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain 1 2 Jos´e L. Mu˜noz-Cobo ] n a- Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, a Polytechnic University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain t a d . s c i Abstract s y h Stochastic neutron transport theory is applied to the derivation of the two-neutron- p detectors cross power spectral density for subcritical assemblies when external pulsed [ sources are used. A general relationship between the two-detector probability gene- 1 rating functions of the kernel and the source is obtained considering the contribution v 6 to detectors statistics of both the pulsed source and the intrinsic neutron source. An 6 expansion in α-eigenvalues is derived for the final solution, which permits to take 1 into account the effect of higher harmonics in subcritical systems. Further, expres- 6 0 sions corresponding to the fundamental mode approximation are compared with 5 recent results from experiments performed under the MUSE-4 European research 0 project. / s c i s y h p : v 1 Introduction i X r a In last years, researchers have shown an increasing interest on the conceptual development of accelerator-driven systems (ADS) for nuclear waste transmuta- tion and energy production purposes. An important issue regarding its future industrial applicability is the development of a periodically subcriticality level