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The design of the fast neutron detector KNK-2-8M is outlined. The results of he detector study in the pulse counting mode with pulses from 238U nuclei fission in the radiator of the neutron-sensitive section and in the current mode with separation of functional section currents are presented. The possibilities of determination of the effective number of 238U nuclei in the radiator of the neutron-sensitive section are considered. The diagnostic capabilities of the detector in the counting mode are demonstrated, as exemplified by the analysis of reference data on characteristics of neutron fields in the BR-1 reactor hall. The diagnostic capabilities of the detector in the current mode are demonstrated, as exemplified by the results of measurements of 238U fission intensity in the power startup of the BR-K1 reactor in the fission pulse generation mode with delayed neutrons and the detector placed in the reactor cavity in conditions of large-scale variation of the reactor radiation fields.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Koshelev, L.Ye. Dovbysh, M.A. Ovchinnikov, G.N. Pikulina, Yu.M. Drozdov, S.V. Chuklyaev, Yu.N. Pepyolyshev, 2016, published in Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya: Fizika Yadernykh Reaktorov, 2016, No. 4, pp. 104–115.
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Koshelev, A.S., Dovbysh, L.Y., Ovchinnikov, M.A. et al. High-Sensitivity Fast Neutron Detector KNK-2-8M. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 80, 1348–1356 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778817080105
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