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Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 3 | December 1981 | Pages 724-727
Technical Note | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32817
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A pinhole camera technique has been used to measure the variation in neutron emission intensity over the area of the neutron-producing target of the National Bureau of Standards Electron Linac. The method uses a one-dimensional position-sensitive proportional counter (PSPC) with an intrinsic spatial resolution of 1.0 mm. The pinhole is made in a thick sheet of cadmium and neutron energy (<0.3-eV) selection is achieved by time-of-flight. In a completely separate experiment, the neutron cone obtained from the (d,t) reaction using the associated-particle technique was imaged by a two-dimensional PSPC. This second measurement demonstrated the use of the two-dimensional detector for imaging high-energy (14-MeV) neutrons.