2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The development of reactor plutonium monitor using solid neutrino detector
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23340063
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
KAWASAKI Takeo 新潟大学, 自然科学系, 准教授 (00323999)
ONO Hiroaki 日本歯科大学, 新潟生命歯学部, 准教授 (70453925)
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| Research Collaborator |
TAMURA Masaaki
SUZUKI Takahito
YAMAGUCHI Yoji
WATANABE Minori
KATSUMATA Masaaki
VEQUIZO Reynaldo M.
JACOSALEM Editha P.
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | ニュートリノ / 原子炉 / プルトニウム / シンチレータ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the reactor, the uranium fuel is consumed, and plutonium is generated. The development study of the reactor neutrino detector that was able to monitor a dangerous plutonium content was done with Gd containing new plastic scintillator. The performance of the prototype detector of 82kg was evaluated by using the gamma ray and the neutron from Am241/Be source as a pseudo neutrino signal. The performance of the reactor monitor of one ton was evaluated by the Geant4 simulation based on the obtained experimental data. The result that taking out the fuel of 6% (equivalent plutonium 90kg) was able to be confirmed by the significance of 2σ in the measurement of 11 days was obtained for the reactor of thermal power 3GW for the change in the plutonium content at the before and after of the refueling.
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| Free Research Field |
高エネルギー物理学
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