Background Radiation Measurements at High Power Research Reactors

Understand

Research reactors host a wide range of activities that make use of the intense neutron fluxes generated at these facilities.

• Recent interest in performing measurements with relatively low event rates, e.g.
• reactor antineutrino detection, at these facilities necessitates a detailed understanding of background radiation fields.
• Both reactor-correlated and naturally occurring background sources are potentially important, even at levels well below those of importance for typical activities.