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A high efficiency BGO detecting system coupled to a coolant pumping device was used to monitor on-line the 6.13 MeV high energy gamma-ray, which is emitted from the 7.1 s half-life of16N activated by16O(n, p) reaction in a nuclear reactor. The system has been demonstrated effectively to monitor the real-time reactor power level as well as the space-time neutron flux distribution in reactor coolant.
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Chung, C., Chan, CC. Application of BGO detector to monitor in situ16N concentration in a reactor pool. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 180, 131–137 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02039911
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