Long term remote reactor power and fuel composition monitoring using antineutrinos

Electron antineutrinos are emitted in the decay chains of the fission products inside a reactor core and could be used for remote monitoring of nuclear reactors. The DANSS detector is placed under the core of the 3.1 GW power reactor at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) and collects up to 5000...

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Main Authors Alekseev, I, Belov, V, Bystryakov, A, Danilov, M, Filosofov, D, Fomina, M, Gorovtsov, P, Ye Iusko, Kazartsev, S, Khvatov, V, Kiselev, S, Kobyakin, A, Krapiva, A, Kuznetsov, A, Machikhiliyan, I, Mashin, N, Medvedev, D, Nesterov, V, Ponomarev, D, Rozova, I, Rumyantseva, N, Rusinov, V, Salamatin, A, Samigullin, E, Ye Shevchik, Shirchenko, M, Yu Shitov, Skrobova, N, Svirida, D, Tarkovsky, E, Yakushev, E, Zhitnikov, I, Yakovleva, A, Zinatulina, D
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LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 24.10.2024
Subjects
Accuracy
Antineutrinos
Beta decay
Fission products
Fuels
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear reactors
Power measurement
Power reactors
Reactor cores
Remote monitoring
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Summary:Electron antineutrinos are emitted in the decay chains of the fission products inside a reactor core and could be used for remote monitoring of nuclear reactors. The DANSS detector is placed under the core of the 3.1 GW power reactor at the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) and collects up to 5000 antineutrino events per day. DANSS measured changes of the reactor power by antineutrino counting rates over 7 years with 1.0% accuracy in one week periods. The systematic uncertainty of this measurement is less than 0.8%. It is comparable to the accuracy of conventional methods of the reactor power measurements while it is based on completely different approach. For the first time the 239Pu and 235U fission fractions were reconstructed using antineutrino inverse beta-decay spectrum which is a completely new technique. This method was applied to the data from three reactor fuel campaigns (approximately 1.5 year each). The reconstructed fission fractions in about one week measurements and the fission fractions provided by KNPP coincide within about 3% accuracy. This provides confidence in both completely different approaches of the fission fraction determination.
ISSN:2331-8422