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Optimization Design of Radiation Shielding Materials for 235U Fission Source in Reactor
YANG Shiyan, HE Manli, JIANG Danfeng, WANG Guohui, YUAN Chao, DAI Yaodong
CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS    2017, 34 (1): 73-81.  
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With 235U fission source in thermal neutron reactor as radiation source, MCNP code is employed to simulate energy spectrum and to study shielding protect.It shows that for prompt neutron, emitting by 235U fission source, with energy more than 3 MeV, heavy metals materials have better shielding effect.However, light hydrogen materials performance better for neutrons with energy below 1MeV.For compounds-W/LiH, W/B4C and TiH2/W, shielding effect is best as weight ratios are W:LiH=19:1, W:B4C=9:1, W:TiH2=3:1.GA combined with MCNP code is employed to search optimized design of compounds, W/TiH2/B4C, TiH2/Cu/Gd and TiH2/B4C/Gd, respectively.Weight fractions are calculated as shielding effect performance is best.Exponential decay relations between dose equivalent rate (10-11Sv·h-1) in tissues caused by neutron and gamma rays penetrating materials and thickness of materials can be expressed as 1.071exp (-0.187 8x), 1.077exp (-0.166 2x) and 1.608exp (-0.171 9x), respectively, where x is thickness of material in cm.
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