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Determination of the balance of the nuclear reactor fuel burn-out process by gamma-spectrometry of fission products III

Determination of the burn-up on the basis of the activity quotients106Ru/137Cs and134Cs/137Cs

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The possibility for the determination of heavy water reactor fuel burn-up on the basis of gamma-spectrometric measurements of the activity quotients106Ru/137Cs and134Cs/137Cs has been experimentally investigated. The investigation has been carried out on the non-enriched uranium metal fuel of the Czechoslovak Nuclear Power Plant Al. A spectrometer with germanium detector has been used for spectrum analysis of the irradiated fuel gamm-radiation. Burn-up has been determined (1) by the applied here procedure, and (2) from the results of mass-spectrometric determination of the isotopic composition and content of U, Pu and Nd. Two groups of the values obtained have been compared and the influence of the errors of the measured activity quotients on the established deviations has been evaluated.

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  1. The Boris Kidrič Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Vincă, Beograd, (Yugoslavia)

    V. Bulovič & Z. Maksimovic

  2. Nuclear Research Institute, Řež, (Czechoslovakia)

    J. Krtil, F. Sus & E. Klosova

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Bulovič, V., Krtil, J., Sus, F. et al. Determination of the balance of the nuclear reactor fuel burn-out process by gamma-spectrometry of fission products III. J. Radioanal. Chem. 80, 199–207 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02517663

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