Workshop 1 – Dosimetry in Research and Test Reactors and in Accelerators

Abstract

Considerable effort is being expended on the review and documentation of older data. One motivation for this is the need for customers to duplicate the test conditions for work that may have been performed decades ago. Another is the need to properly archive data for the increasing number of facilities that have already been shut down in Europe, the United States and Japan, or are scheduled to be shut down in the near future. Other reasons exist, but the inability of facilities to meet performance requirements imposed after the Fukushima event was identified as a major contributor. Beyond the need to perform extensive review and documentation of experiments already conducted in order to preserve this knowledge for future use, it is important that facilities stopping operation in the near future identify the data that still need to be obtained, and perform the necessary experimental work before the shutdown occurs. Reactors in operation continue to maintain their usual activities with regard to detector calibration and code validation. Although decreasing in number, there still exist reactors with standard fields for calibration and code validation, such as those at SCK-CEN in Belgium and a new critical assembly under construction in Nevada in the United States. The option to seek access to the reactors in China