The application of the multiple transient technique for the experimental determination of the relative abundances and decay constants of delayed neutrons of the IPEN/MB-01 reactor

Abstract

An in-pile experiment for the determination of the relative abundances and decay constants of delayed neutrons has been successfully performed at the IPEN/MB-01 research reactor facility. The experimental data are of good quality and can be used to validate theoretical predictions of the delayed neutron group constants based on the current knowledge of the fission products yields and emission probabilities for known precursors. The theory/experiment comparison shows that the current release of ENDF/B-VI, namely release 8, shows severe discrepancies in both relative abundances and in its first decay constant. The version revised at LANL shows very good progress in both aspects. JENDL3.3 shows the best performance in the C/E comparison. One of the main achievements of the experiment was the consistency of the measured first decay constant to that of 87Br. Finally, it is also shown preliminary experimental results for an eight-group model.