Measurement of the Neutron Spectrum from a Fast Pulse Reactor in the Presence of the Experimenter's Table

Abstract

The measurement of the neutron spectrum from the White Sands Missile Range Fast Burst Reactor (FBR) in the presence of the experimenter's table is reported herein. A reinvestigation of this neutron spectrum was performed as a result of a recently published work, which indicates that the experimenter's table has a considerable softening effect on the neutron spectrum from the FBR. Based on such spectral parameters as average energy, integral fluence, and spectral index, we find the neutron spectrum associated with the experimenter's table to be essentially identical to the free-field leakage spectrum.