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Simulating transients in the subcritical reactor by using a sealed-tube neutron generator

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Research on transients is one of the main focuses in the field of accelerator driven subcritical reactor (ADSR). But inducing the transients by accelerator is inconvenient and costly. Simulating transients by sealed-tube neutron generator, through improving the driver of Penning ion source and modulating trigger signals of pulsed neutron, is a fast, accurate, reliable and low-cost method. This method has been used in simulating transients on the physics test platform of ADSR in China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE). And this method also can be applied in PGNAA.

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The authors acknowledge funding by the Key Laboratory of Neutron Physics of China Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant No. 2013BC01) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. School of Physics, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130024, Jilin, People’s Republic of China

    Gang Li & Linmao Liu

  2. China Institute of Atomic Energy, P. O. Box 275, Beijing, 102413, People’s Republic of China

    Yongqian Shi & Huangda Luo

  3. China Academy of Engineering Physics, MianShan Road 64, Mianyang, 621900, People’s Republic of China

    Yong Jiang & Chengsheng Chu

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Li, G., Shi, Y., Luo, H. et al. Simulating transients in the subcritical reactor by using a sealed-tube neutron generator. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 307, 2173–2179 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-015-4546-y

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